25 Quotes by Joseph Haydn

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition." (Said to Leopold Mozart)

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, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

I was put off from the world---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.

Children be comforted, I am well.

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 originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.

I was for some time quite beside myself and could not believe that Providence could have required the presence of this indispensable man in the other world so soon.