Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right ...

I write as a sow piddles.

It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear frien...

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius....

How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to ...

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed duri...

The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one ca...

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which un...

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I lik...

People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so muc...

I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsake...

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of...

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is mo...

What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the poin...

Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell...

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius....

All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. ...

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poet...

The music is not in the notes,but in the silence between.

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to h...

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and c...

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is ...

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior t...

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot s...