Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

Austrian composer of the Classical period (1756-1791)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was an Austrian composer and musician.

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Native Name: Johann Chrysostomos Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart

Alternative Names: Mozart • Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Amadeus Mozart • W. A. Mozart • Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Amadeus Mozart • Johannes Chrisostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart • V. A. Mocartas • Volphnkank Amedaios Motsart • Apollo Mozzart • Wolfgango Amadeo Mozart • Mozhate • Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart • Wolfgang Amadè Mozart • Wolfgang Amadeus Chrysostom Mozart • Моцарт • Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

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(...) you know that I am, as it were, completely immersed in Musique - it is on my mind all day long - I love to plan - study - reflect on it (...).

Some fellow built a house here and wrote on it:
When I built my house I was very glad,
when I knew its cost I got very sad.
(During the night somebody scribbled right under it:)
Building a house takes a lot of loot,
and you should have known it,
you nincompoop.

you mustn’t place your signature too low down on the page and thereby leave a blank space above it, otherwise some rogue – if such a letter were to fall into the wrong hands – might cut out the name and add some small demand for several louis d’or in the blank space above it.

"What else is genius than that productive power through which deeds arise, worthy of standing in the presence of God and Nature, and which, for this reason, bear results and are lasting? All the creations of Mozart are of this class; within them there is a generative force which is transplanted from generation to generation, and is not likely soon to be exhausted or devoured." CHIPS

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

(...) the French are such assess, they are truly inept, for they have to go abroad for help.

The organ is in my eyes and ears the king of all instruments.

(...) he must have thought: this is a young fellow and a stupid German besides - that's just how all French speak of the Germans - he will be quite content with this - but the stupid German was not content - and didn't accept the money either (...).

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

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 had the honour of kissing St. Peter's foot at Sanct Pietro, and because I have the misfortune of being so small I, the same old numbskull, Wolfgang Mozart, had to be lifted up.

If a passage occurs twice it is played slower the second time; if three times, still slower.

The thing is I have an inexpressible desire to write an opera again; it would make me so happy because it gives me something to compose which is my real joy and passion (...).

I ask you most humbly to continue loving me a little, and to be content for the moment with this token of a congratulation until new drawers can be made for my small little brain box, so I have a place to put the brain that I still hope to acquire.

Everything here is too far to walk - or too muddy; for the dirt in Paris is beyond all description.