Joseph Haydn Quotes

• When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.

  Joseph Haydn

  Heart, Thinking, Joy

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• Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

  Joseph Haydn

  Music, People, Effort

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• It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

  Joseph Haydn

  Genius, Invention, Produce

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• There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

  Joseph Haydn

  Inspiring, Musical, Originals

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• Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work....When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.

  Joseph Haydn

  Piano, Giving, Each Day

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• Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

  Joseph Haydn

  Heart, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

  Joseph Haydn

  Heart, Thinking, Joy

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• If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

  Joseph Haydn

  Music, Want, Ifs

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• I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

  Joseph Haydn

  Littles, Ability

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• Rules are my very humble, obedient servants.

  Joseph Haydn

  Humble, Servant, Obedient

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• I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

  Joseph Haydn

  Effort, Care

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• Mozart is the incarnation of music.

  Joseph Haydn

  Incarnation

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• Whenever I think of God I can only conceive of Him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine nature inspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written even a miserere in tempo allegro.

  Joseph Haydn

  Thinking, Joy, Inspire

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• The life's story of great geniuses is a sad one, without much tangible reward, which does not inspire future generations to face a similar fate. Alas also, it stands to reason why so many talent will not come to sparkle on the artistic firmanent.

  Joseph Haydn

  Fate, Inspire, Doe

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• I would give my best quartet for a good razor.

  Joseph Haydn

  Giving, Razors, Quartets

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• I'm going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!

  Joseph Haydn

  Creativity, Communes

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• I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.

  Joseph Haydn

  Son, Men, Skills

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• I was for some time quite beside myself and could not believe that Providence could have required the presence of this indispensable man in the other world so soon.

  Joseph Haydn

  Believe, Men, Other Worlds

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• Cheer up, children, I am all right.

  Joseph Haydn

  Cheer, Children, Cheer Up

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• The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.

  Joseph Haydn

  Drinking, Wine, Relatives And Friends

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• Children be comforted, I am well.

  Joseph Haydn

  Children, Last Words, Wells

  Last words, 1809.

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