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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

Best Quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Top 8)

  1. The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
  2. I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
  3. 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.
  4. All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.
  5. To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
  6. People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.
  7. Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
  8. Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.