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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

«[T]o talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.»
«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.»
«I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.»
«As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream.»
«I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.»
«My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.»