Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The shorter way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.”

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

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

“When I am completely by myself, entirely alone or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.”