Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — "I never force myself to compose. If I don't feel like it, I don't."

"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 th…"

"I am a true artist, and I will always be one."

"I ask your forgiveness for my bad handwriting. It is due to the fact that I am always thinking of something else."

"I have never studied music, it comes to me naturally."

"I hope that I shall live to be a hundred years old, and then I shall have time to write all the music that I have in my head."