Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart More Quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart More Quotes From Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart please music ears If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed - all there is cold, cold as ice. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ice emotional heart Music is my life and my life is music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart music-is-my-life music-is life-is What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart flutes two I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may night lying Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa Who knows most, knows least. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart horse music italian I too had to work hard, so as not to have to work hard any longer. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart hard hard-work A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart inspiring men travel 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. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart daughter mother art The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What delight this is I cannot tell! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart imagination long thinking An astonishing number of kisses are flying about! I see a whole crowd of them. Ha! Ha! I have just caught three - They are delicious... I kiss you millions of times. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart kissing emotional numbers Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart doing-what-you-love making-love spiritual God is ever before my eyes. I realize his omnipotence and I fear His anger; but I also recognize his compassion, and His tenderness towards His creatures. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart omnipotence eye compassion 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. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart angel inspiration men Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart forgive-me forgiving men When I am at peace with myself . . . then thoughts flow into me most easily and at their best. Where they come from and how - that I cannot say . . . I'd be willing to work forever and forever if I were permitted to write only such music as I want to write and can write - which I myself think good. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart forever writing thinking Melody is the essence of music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart melody essence Patience and tranquility of mind contribute more to cure Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart medicine mind art I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn; but to be obliged to go to a house at a certain hour, or to have to wait at home for a pupil, is what I cannot do, no matter how much money it may bring me in. . . I am a composer and was born to be a Kapellmeister. I neither can nor ought to bury the talent for composition with which God in his goodness has so richly endowed me. . . Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart house home giving A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opinion alive half
