Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation.

The best way to learn is through the powerful force of rhythm.

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

I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes.

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.

I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.

Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be 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, but I hear them, as it were, all at once (gleich dies zusammen). What a delight this is I cannot tell ! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing lively dream.

Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.

I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I'll be able to endure it.

The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human ear is now incapable of hearing. Among these new sounds will be the glorious music of angelic chorales. As men hear these they will cease to consider Angels as figments of their imagination.

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.

The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.

I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I know that hereafter it will be written; when instead of these few inlets of the senses through which we now secure impressions from without, there shall be a flood of impressions from all sides; and instead of these few tones of our little octave, there shall be an infinite scale of harmonies - for I feel it - I am sure of it. This world of music, whose borders even now I have scarcely entered, is a reality, is immortal.

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.

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.

It is when I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer.....that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them.

People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.

I choose such notes that love one another.

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.

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

The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.