. . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...

Ah Mozart He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

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.

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.