Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Art, Mean

  Letter to Leopold Mozart, 8 Nov. 1777

• I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I know that hereafter it will be written; when instead of these few inlets of the senses through which we now secure impressions from without, there shall be a flood of impressions from all sides; and instead of these few tones of our little octave, there shall be an infinite scale of harmonies - for I feel it - I am sure of it. This world of music, whose borders even now I have scarcely entered, is a reality, is immortal.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Writing, Heart, Reality

• True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized - you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligble that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Writing, Simple, Perfection

• Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your head.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Fun, Writing, Emotional

• When I am at peace with myself . . . then thoughts flow into me most easily and at their best. Where they come from and how - that I cannot say . . . I'd be willing to work forever and forever if I were permitted to write only such music as I want to write and can write - which I myself think good.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Writing, Thinking, Forever

• To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Writing, Winning, Simple

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1905). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”

• Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Passion, Writing

• I write [music] as a sow piddles.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Writing

• You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Writing, Bears, Instruments

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Stanley Sadie, Fiona Smart (2016). “The Letters of Mozart and his Family”, p.481, Springer

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