Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.

—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

If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed — all there is cold, cold as ice.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I really do not aim at any originality.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

She’s only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

—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

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

Love guards the heart from the abyss.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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

It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

I am one of those who will go on doing till all doings are at an end.

—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

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

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

Creativity is the firing of my soul.

—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

Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I can’t write much, because writing so many parts of the opera has made my fingers painful.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

—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

What’s even worse than a flute? – Two flutes!

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I am a composer, and I was born a Kapellmeister. I must not and cannot bury my Gift for Composing.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart