Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart quotes

" I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. " # Blame # Praise # Love

" 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. " # Love # Imagination # Genius

" Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation. " # Music # Moderation # Age and Aging

" Mozart is the musical Christ. " # Music # Innovation # Christians and Christianity

" As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling And 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. " # Death and Dying # Friends and Friendship # Happiness

" Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity. " # Music # Innovation # Common Sense

" As with all great artists, Mozart expressed not only the soul, the taste and the aroma of his epoch, but also the spiritual world of man-man for all ages, in all the complexity of his desires, his struggles and ambivalence. Some of us, who only identify in Mozart a certain aristocratic refinement, may find these words strange. Often we meet with a condescending attitude towards him, to his music, reminiscent of chiming bells in a music box! ...'It's very nice, but not for me' say such people, 'give me passion - Beethoven, Brahms, tragic, monumental...' Such comments only reveal one thing, these people don't know Mozart. " # Music # Love # Arts and Artists

" A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe " # Stupidity # Music # Innovation

" What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great composers never sacrificed form to expression. As high as their expression may soar, their musical form remains supreme and all-efficient. ~ Camille Saint-Saëns " # Music # Saints # Sacrifice

" 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. " # Talkativeness # Love # Family