7 Quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart about writing
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I write [music] as a sow piddles.
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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.
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You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.
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True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized - you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligble that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it.
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To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.
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When I am at peace with myself . . . then thoughts flow into me most easily and at their best. Where they come from and how - that I cannot say . . . I'd be willing to work forever and forever if I were permitted to write only such music as I want to write and can write - which I myself think good.
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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....
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