Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart famous quotes

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Music #Silence #Notes

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

#Feelings #Intuition #Criticism

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Love #Marriage #Flower

I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I know that hereafter it will be written; when instead of these few inlets of the senses through which we now secure impressions from without, there shall be a flood of impressions from all sides; and instead of these few tones of our little octave, there shall be an infinite scale of harmonies - for I feel it - I am sure of it. This world of music, whose borders even now I have scarcely entered, is a reality, is immortal.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Heart #Writing #Reality

All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#People #World #Way

The best way to learn is through the powerful force of rhythm.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Education #Powerful #Learning

Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Spiritual #Soul #Genius

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

#Two #Flutes

The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human ear is now incapable of hearing. Among these new sounds will be the glorious music of angelic chorales. As men hear these they will cease to consider Angels as figments of their imagination.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Inspiration #Angel #Men

Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Chance

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Art #Moments #Wells

I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Passion #Delight #Sole

Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Men #Forgive Me #Forgiving

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician....
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Music #Art #Writing

To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Kings #Eye #Ears

Melody is the essence of music.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Essence #Melody

Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Strikes #Thunderbolts #Handel

Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Dream #Imagination #Delight

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Inspiring #Travel #Men

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

#Inspirational #Sleep #Night

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

#Passion #Ears #Rock N Roll

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Opportunity #Doors #Keys

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

#Children #Humble #Compassion

The taste of death is upon my lips.  I feel something that is not of this earth.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Taste #Lips #Earth

When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as my mind might wish.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Sleep #Night #Mind

If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Music #World #Harmony

Creativity is the firing of my soul.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Creativity #Soul

Music is my life and my life is music.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Life Is #Music Is My Life #Music Is

Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Silence #Important #Notes

My fatherland has always the first claim on me.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Firsts #Claims #Fatherland

Patience and tranquility of mind contribute more to cure our distempers as the whole art of medicine
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Art #Medicine #Mind

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence. I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is very soothing and consoling! I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Death #Opportunity #Doors

People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Art #Thinking #People

I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn; but to be obliged to go to a house at a certain hour, or to have to wait at home for a pupil, is what I cannot do, no matter how much money it may bring me in. . . I am a composer and was born to be a Kapellmeister. I neither can nor ought to bury the talent for composition with which God in his goodness has so richly endowed me. . .
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Home #Giving #House

My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Daughter #Mother #Art

For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not - but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes - bad, if he always stays in the same place.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Art #Travel #Men

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust...
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Passion #Violent #Should

I really do not aim at any originality.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Originality #Aim

Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Music #Writing #Passion

I do not hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen - at the same time all together.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Imagination #Together #My Imagination

Directly after God in heaven comes a Papa.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Inspirational #Heaven #Papa

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Goal #Existence

Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists--merely in the imagination.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Happiness #Imagination #May

Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills!
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#May #Matter #Useless

As I love Mannheim , Mannheim loves me.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I write [music] as a sow piddles.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Writing

It is when I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer.....that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Cheer #Ideas #Flow

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Music #Ears #Please

The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What delight this is I cannot tell!
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Thinking #Imagination #Long

If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed - all there is cold, cold as ice.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Heart #Emotional #Ice

The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Music #Difficult #Principal

Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Brain #Riches #Needs

You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Writing #Bears #Instruments

Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Doe #Life Is #Music Is My Life

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Horse #Essence #Fine

It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Music #Art #Mistake

To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that long and do behave.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Good Friend #Emotional #Feet

She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Eye #Emotional #Two

If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Names #Patriotism #Proud

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa— Who knows most, knows least.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Music #Horse #Italian

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

#Uprising #Done #Chance

My dear sister! I’m amazed to discover that you can compose so delightfully. In a word, your Lied is beautiful. You must compose more often.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Beautiful #Lied #Dear

An astonishing number of kisses are flying about! I see a whole crowd of them. Ha! Ha! I have just caught three - They are delicious... I kiss you millions of times.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Kissing #Emotional #Numbers

To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Writing #Simple #Emotional

Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your head.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Fun #Writing #Emotional