Top 80 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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2. “Music is my life and my life is music.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

3. “I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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4. “I am a fool. That is well known.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

5. “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

6. “Melody is the essence of music.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

7. “All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak – and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

8. “Love guards the heart from the abyss.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

9. “If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

10. “The best way to learn is through the powerful force of rhythm.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

11. “To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

12. “I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know, namely that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a dog, just like a brute. That is his reward!”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

13. “I choose such notes that love one another.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

14. “Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

15. “Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

16. “It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

17. “Creativity is the firing of my soul.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

18. “To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

19. “Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

20. “Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

21. “God first, then papa.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

22. “I too had to work hard, so as not to have to work hard any longer.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

23. “If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed – all there is cold, cold as ice.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

24. “Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

25. “God is ever before my eyes. I realize his omnipotence and I fear His anger; but I also recognize his compassion, and His tenderness towards His creatures.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

26. “I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

27. “I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

28. “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

29. “The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

30. “Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists – merely in the imagination.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

31. “When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as my mind might wish.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

32. “Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

33. “People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

34. “Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

35. “One must not make oneself cheap here – that is a cardinal point – or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

36. “If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German – and to the shame of the German nation.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

37. “You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak- that I think about it all day long- that I like experimenting- studying- reflecting.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

38. “I really do not aim at any originality.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

39. “What’s even worse than a flute? – Two flutes!”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

40. “I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I’ll be able to endure it.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

41. “As I love Mannheim, Mannheim loves me.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

42. “I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

43. “Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

44. “Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

45. “Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

46. “Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills!”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

47. “A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

48. “It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

49. “Directly after God in heaven comes a Papa.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

50. “I do not hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen – at the same time all together.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart