Joseph Haydn Quotes

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• Cheer up, children, I am all right.
• The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect…
• Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.
• Whenever I think of God I can only conceive of Him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine…
• I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute,…
• I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.
• I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.
• I would give my best quartet for a good razor,
• I'm going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!
• If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.
• There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.
• I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

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