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" My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Honest
Darling
Faithful
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" I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. "
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" Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious. "
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" I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste. "
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" I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death. "
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" One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. "
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Best
Chance
" Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock. "
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" The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please. "
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Things
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" How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Choose
Sad
How
" 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. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Music
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" An unmarried man, in my opinion, enjoys only half a life. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Only
Half
Life
" My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Father
Write
Opportunity
" When I come to reflect on the subject, in no country have I received such honors or been so esteemed as in Italy, and nothing contributes more to a man's fame than to have written Italian operas, and especially for Naples. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Country
Fame
Reflect
" I am one of those who will go on doing till all doings are at an end. "
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Doing
Will
Who
" I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I Am
Feelings
Light
" I hope never to marry in this way; I wish to make my wife happy, but not to become rich by her means, so I will let things alone and enjoy my golden freedom till I am so well off that I can support both wife and children. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wife
Freedom
Alone
" 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. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Together
Soul
Love
" It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Love
Faith
Compassion
" I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. "
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Blame
Praise
Own
" When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I Am
Sleep
Best
" Believe me, I do not like idleness but work. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Like
Idleness
Believe
" My sole recreations consist in dancing English hornpipes and cutting capers. Italy is a land of sleep; I am always drowsy here. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Always
Dancing
Here
" As for pupils, I can have as many as I choose, but I do not choose to take many. I intend to be better paid than others, and so I wish to have fewer scholars. It is advisable to hang back a little at first, or it is all over with you, and you must pursue the common highway with the rest. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Back
You
Wish
" If I were obliged to marry all those with whom I have jested, I should have at least two hundred wives. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wives
Marry
Should