25 Quotes by Joseph Haydn

I would give my best quartet for a good razor,

Mozart is the incarnation of music.

The life's story of great geniuses is a sad one, without much tangible reward, which does not inspire future generations to face a similar fate. Alas also, it stands to reason why so many talent will not come to sparkle on the artistic firmanent.

I'm going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

Whenever I think of God I can only conceive of Him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine nature inspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written even a miserere in tempo allegro.

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work....When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.