140 Quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Author Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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    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.

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  • Author Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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    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.

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  • Author Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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    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.

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  • Author Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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    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.

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  • Author Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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  • Author Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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    My subject enlarges itself, becomes methodized and define, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statute, at a glance.

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