The 20 best quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

We review several famous quotes from the brilliant Austrian composer.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) was one of the most acclaimed and remembered classical composers and pianists even in our time.

Born in the cradle of classical music, Austria, he developed a precocious and incredible career in which he covered any musical style of his time, from symphonic music, through chamber music, operas, piano pieces... His works had a diffusion that went beyond European borders.

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Mozart's phrases on music, creativity and life.

To try to understand the brilliant creative mind of the master of Classicism, we have set out to compile a collection of the best quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.. Pure talent.

1. The most necessary, difficult and principal thing in music is time.

Great phrase of Mozart about the essential element for a correct musical composition.

I am not interested in praise or criticism, it is enough for me to follow my own feelings.

About his ego, based on what he believed necessary for his emotional side.

3. Music is the only way to the transcendent.

Famous premonitory quote: his scores left an incomparable and immortal legacy.

4. Melody is the essence of music.

Another reflection on the art he mastered.

5. If Germany, my beloved homeland, of which you know I am proud, does not accept me, then I must, in the name of God, stay in France or England and feel ashamed of Germany as a nation.

About which he always regarded as his second nation.

6. In Salzburg I do not know who I am, I am everything and sometimes nothing, but I do not ask so much, and at the same time I ask only that - but only something - ... if I am only something somewhere else I would know.

About his hometown Salzburg in a convoluted explanation.

7. The only thing I dislike about Salzburg, and I tell you this from the bottom of my heart, is that no proper social intercourse can be established with those people, and that the music has no better reputation and that the archbishop has no faith in intelligent people who have travelled.

A small reproach to the city of his birth.

8. If the emperor wants me, let him pay me, for the honor alone of being with him is not enough for me.

A sample of his restrained pride.

9. Death, to call it by its name, is the real purpose of our life. That is why in recent years I have made a relationship with this true friend of man.

A particular vision of death. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at the young age of 35.

10. There is only one thing worse than one flute, two flutes.

Amadeus's pessimistic view when he was commissioned to compose The Magic Flute.

11. A priest is capable of anything.

Mozart was critical of the Church establishment.

12. Neither a sublime intelligence, nor a great imagination, nor both together form genius; love, that is the soul of genius.

Feelings translate intelligence into a work worthy of admiration.

13. It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy for me. I assure you, dear friend, no one studies as much as I do.

A tireless student of music, I could not bear to let anyone question my commitment.

14. After God there is Dad.

The first figure of authority, God; the second, the master of the house.

15. Give me the best piano in Europe, but with an audience that does not want or does not feel with me what I play, and I will lose all taste for performance.

On the need for the audience to surrender to the genius.

16. Give my dog Pimperl a portion of Spanish tobacco, a good loaf of bread and three little kisses.

A nice phrase of Mozart that lets us see his most human and domestic side.

17. If I told you everything I do with your beloved portrait you would laugh. For example, when I take him out of his dungeon, I tell him: Good morning, darling! good morning, good morning, good morning; bratty, naughty, pointy-nosed, chichecito.

Along the lines of the previous one, bringing out his tender side.

18. In an opera, poetry must necessarily be an obedient daughter of music.

The hierarchy between the arts, with the aim of achieving perfect harmony.

19. No one can measure his own days, one must resign oneself. It will happen as providence wills.

About death. One of those Mozart's phrases that alludes with a certain optimism to the idea of dying.

20. New friends, new pains.

A phrase about friendship, a necessary torment for the life of any human being.