Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.
Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .
Music is a kind of harmonious language.
Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.