Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”
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“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
-- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartSource : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”
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“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
-- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartSource : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher
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“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.”
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“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.”
-- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartSource : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Stanley Sadie, Fiona Smart (2016). “The Letters of Mozart and his Family”, p.749, Springer
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“The best way to learn is through the powerful force of rhythm.”
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“Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
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“What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!”
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“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.”
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“Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.”
-- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartSource : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”
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“To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.”
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“I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion”
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“Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.”
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“I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician....”
-- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartSource : Letter to Leopold Mozart, 8 Nov. 1777
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“To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.”
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“Melody is the essence of music.”
-- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartSource : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1926). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist Revealed in His Own Words”, p.7, Courier Corporation
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“Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.”
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“Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.”
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“When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as my mind might wish.”
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“If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.”
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“Creativity is the firing of my soul.”
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“Music is my life and my life is music.”
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“Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.”
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“My fatherland has always the first claim on me.”
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