Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Music is the language of the angels."

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go into the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

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

"The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously."

"When life gets you down, know that you will rise again."

"Composing is not fatiguing. On the contrary, I am only troubled when I have nothing to do."

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

"A man who has no ear for music is no man at all; he is less than a beast."

"People err who think my art has come easily to me."

"Writing music is my life. I cannot imagine doing anything else."

"The best is yet to come."

"I wish I could express the thanks which I feel burning inside me."

"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."

"There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man."

"Ah, if only the world knew the music that sounds in my heart."

"One cannot love and be wise."

"The viola is the soul of the orchestra."

"Where there is rotten straw, there will always be some rats."

"Learning music is a proficiency whole unto itself."

"It is an absolute truth that the principles of composition cannot be taught; they come from the heart."

"All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening."

"When you rise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive."

"I love freedom. And I hate tyranny."

"The music must flow like a river."

"My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the musical note and without the assistance of so many accessories, which the majority of composers drag after them."

"Gaiety of the soul is the mark of wisdom."

"Man can do all things if he will."

"I can assure you on my honor that I value my liberty more than my life."

"Silence itself is beginning to pall on me."

"My music is born inside me as my dreams."