My sole recreations consist in dancing English hornpipes and cutting capers. Italy is a land of sleep; I am always drowsy here. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Read Quote
Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming’s sake, most pernicious. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Read Quote
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Read Quote
I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Read Quote
If I were obliged to marry all those with whom I have jested, I should have at least two hundred wives. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Read Quote
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Read Quote
Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Read Quote
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Read Quote
One must not make oneself cheap here – that is a cardinal point – or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Read Quote
