Austrian - Musician | January 27, 1756 - December 5, 1791
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.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.
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Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious.
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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.
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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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An unmarried man, in my opinion, enjoys only half a life.
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My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart.
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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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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.
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If I were obliged to marry all those with whom I have jested, I should have at least two hundred wives.
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My sole recreations consist in dancing English hornpipes and cutting capers. Italy is a land of sleep; I am always drowsy here.
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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.
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