Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

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

I too had to work hard, so as not to have to work hard any longer. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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

One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be - though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain - because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone. ~ Oswald Spengler

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

Now there is music from which a man can learn something. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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

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

The psychological detective story in "Equus" made Peter Shaffer's name as a playwright. But it was his next play, "Amadeus," that cemented his reputation, largely because of the movie version. Another battle of wills, it was the story of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart seen through the eyes of lesser composer Antonio Salieri. ~ Bob Mondello

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27. About eleven minutes later he was writing his own music. ~ Ron David

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

I choose such notes that love one another. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

(...) you know that I am, as it were, completely immersed in Musique - it is on my mind all day long - I love to plan - study - reflect on it (...). ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

When I am ... completely myself, entirely alone ... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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

It is, of course, a money marriage, nothing more. I wouldn't want to enter into this kind of marriage. I wish to make my wife happy and not make my happiness through her. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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

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

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 relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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

The human voice vibrates naturally - but in such a way - to such a degree that it all sounds beautiful - it is the nature of the voice. We imitate such effects not only on wind instruments, but also with violins - even on clavier - but as soon as you go beyond the natural limits, it no longer sounds beautiful - because it is contrary to nature. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I'll be able to endure it. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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

Don Giovanni, you invited me to sup with you: I have come. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want to understand, and who are incapable of grasping my intent, whatever I play, does surely forfeit my lust for playing at all. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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

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

The only thing
I tell you this straight from the heart
that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with those people
and that music does not have a better reputation ... 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. If the archbishop would trust me, I would soon make his music famous; that is surely true. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

I am a fool. That is well known. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak - that I think about it all day long - that I like experimenting - studying - reflecting. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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

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

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

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 you could wish. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

They probably think because I am so small and young, nothing of greatness and class can come out of me; but they shall soon find out. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know, namely that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a dog, just like a brute. That is his reward! ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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

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

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge. ~ Gioachino Rossini

I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five years old, so it was a good time to start piano lessons after seeing Tom Hulce who played Mozart play the harpsichord on his back with his hands crossed. Such a great movie to inspire a five-year-old. ~ Mark Salling

I was eighteen now, just gone. Eighteen was not a young age. At eighteen old Wolfgang Amadeus had written concertos and symphonies and operas and oratorios and all that cal, no, not cal, heavenly music. And then there was old Felix M. with his "Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture. And there were others. And there was this like French poet set by old Benjy Britt, who had done all his best poetry by the age of fifteen, O my brothers. Arthur, his first name. Eighteen was not all that young an age then. But what was I going to do? ~ Anthony Burgess

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life. ~ Jerry Saltz

Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One spares old people just as one spares children. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He remarked as much to Charlotte on his return, and she was inclined to agree with him. 'As life draws us along,' she replied, 'we think we are acting of our own volition, ourselves choosing what we shall do and what we shall enjoy; but when we look more closely we see they are only the intentions and inclinations of the age which we are being compelled to comply with. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You are aware of only one unrest;
Oh, never learn to know the other!
Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,
And one is striving to forsake its brother.
Unto the world in grossly loving zest,
With clinging tendrils, one adheres;
The other rises forcibly in quest
Of rarefied ancestral spheres.
If there be spirits in the air
That hold their sway between the earth and sky,
Descend out of the golden vapors there
And sweep me into iridescent life.
Oh, came a magic cloak into my hands
To carry me to distant lands,
I should not trade it for the choicest gown,
Nor for the cloak and garments of the crown. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I sit here like a monarch on his throne
I've got my sceptre, but no crown to call my own
-Mephistopheles ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Geothe

He who possesses science and art also has religion; but he who possesses neither of those two, let him have religion! ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We don't get to know anything but what we love. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to them. ~ Wolfgang Ketterle

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be. ~ Roger Daltrey

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men; - I believe that he who once has bathed in the sublime delights of this high Art, is consecrate to Her for ever, and never can deny Her; - I believe that through Art all men are saved. ~ Richard Wagner

People are visual and hands on learners. ~ Wolfgang Puck

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I want to give people a basic education, and to help them think for themselves when it comes to food. ~ Wolfgang Puck

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.' ~ Danielle De Niese

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When air is hot, the molecules move fast and they have high kinetic energy. The colder the molecules are, the smaller their velocities are and, subsequently, their energy. Temperature is simply a way to characterize the energy of a system. ~ Wolfgang Ketterle

I am what I am, so take me as I am!. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild, with hair down to my waist, Indian robes, a floor-length fur coat. There must be lots of photos of me out there. ~ Wolfgang Beltracchi

Not like Homer would I write,
Not like Dante if I might,
Not like Shakespeare at his best,
Not like Goethe or the rest,
Like myself, however small,
Like myself, or not at all. ~ William Allingham

Do thine own task, and be therewith content. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'! ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. ~ Steve Lacy

Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never lie about the intentions behind the camera. ~ Wolfgang Tillmans

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

This day of torment, of craziness, of foolishness - only love can make it end in happiness and joy. - W. A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, Le Nozze di Figaro (1786) ~ Martha C. Nussbaum

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe