Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart More Quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart More Quotes From Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart emotional eye two As I love Mannheim, Mannheim loves me. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart clothes suits singers My fatherland has always the first claim on me. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart fatherland claims firsts . . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I am one of those who will go on doing till all doings are at an end. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart i-am end will doing I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart thoughts i-am shadow light We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart live progress science world An unmarried man, in my opinion, enjoys only half a life. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart man opinion half life Believe me, I do not like idleness but work. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart like me work believe How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart judge great sad believe The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart things being truth happy If I were obliged to marry all those with whom I have jested, I should have at least two hundred wives. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marry those should two Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart indeed rhyme rhyming music My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart me church opportunity father Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart me i-can proud people As for pupils, I can have as many as I choose, but I do not choose to take many. I intend to be better paid than others, and so I wish to have fewer scholars. It is advisable to hang back a little at first, or it is all over with you, and you must pursue the common highway with the rest. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart rest better you wish My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart her darling faithful honest My sole recreations consist in dancing English hornpipes and cutting capers. Italy is a land of sleep; I am always drowsy here. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart english i-am always sleep
