Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart.

What’s even worse than a flute? – Two flutes!

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

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.

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.

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.

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

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.

Love guards the heart from the abyss.

True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized – you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligble that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it.

If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.

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.

I hope never to marry in this way; I wish to make my wife happy, but not to become rich by her means, so I will let things alone and enjoy my golden freedom till I am so well off that I can support both wife and children.

Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.

An unmarried man, in my opinion, enjoys only half a life.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.