"What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!"
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar.."
"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 pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."
"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."
"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 industr..."
"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."
"I write as a sow piddles."