The most stimulating and encouraging thought is that you, dearest father, and my dear sister, are well, that I am an honest German, and that if I am … - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The only thing — I tell you this straight from the heart — that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with those people — and that music does not have a better reputation...For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!...A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not — but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes — bad, if he always stays in the same place. If the archbishop would trust me, I would soon make his music famous; that is surely true.

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

(...) 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 (...).