Mozart Quotes

Happy is the man who lets reason be his guide.

In opera the text must be the obedient daughter of the music.

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When a man has the spirit of a composer, he writes because he can't help it.

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

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.

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.