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I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

I want you for always ... days, years, eternities.

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

The moment is supreme.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Those who are born of grief give greatest delight to the outside world.

Love is in the air these days, so we thought we'd give a try to make your day a little brighter.

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?

My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

There is no such thing as happy music.

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!