Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Quotes

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.

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 Mozart

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

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

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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.

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.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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.

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.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious.

Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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.

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.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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 thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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