Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes About Music
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Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.
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Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa Who knows most, knows least.
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If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.
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The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.
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It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.
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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.
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The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
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Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.
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