Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

My sole recreations consist in dancing English hornpipes and cutting capers. Italy is a land of sleep; I am always drowsy here.
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.
Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious.
We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.
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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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Musician
BirthDate
27 January, 1756
DeathDate
05 December, 1791
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Austria
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