Cheer up, children, I am all right.

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

Whenever I think of God I can only conceive of Him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine nature inspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written even a miserere in tempo allegro.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work....When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.

Mozart is the incarnation of music.