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I do not hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen - at the same time all together.

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

The best way to learn is through the powerful force of rhythm.

To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.

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.

I am a fool. That is well known.

Melody is the essence of music.

Handel understands effect better than any of us
when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.

Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.

Directly after God in heaven comes a Papa.

What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak - that I think about it all day long - that I like experimenting - studying - reflecting.

I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion

She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.

Patience and tranquility of mind contribute more to cure
our distempers as the whole art of medicine

If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed - all there is cold, cold as ice.

As I love Mannheim , Mannheim loves me.

Music is my life and my life is music.

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

Creativity is the firing of my soul.

I write [music] as a sow piddles.

Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.

Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.

I really do not aim at any originality.

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

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.

The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.

I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes.

My dear sister! I'm amazed to discover that you can compose so delightfully. In a word, your Lied is beautiful. You must compose more often.

It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..

Our riches, being in our brains, die with us ... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.

A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive.

Don Giovanni, you invited me to sup with you: I have come.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Love guards the heart from the abyss.

Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your head.

To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.

I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day.

To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that long and do behave.

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.

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

Now there is music from which a man can learn something.

I too had to work hard, so as not to have to work hard any longer.

My fatherland has always the first claim on me.

I choose such notes that love one another.

Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.

You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.