Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes
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If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.
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Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.
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The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
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I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
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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.
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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.
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To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
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Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.
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I choose such notes that love one another.
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I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.