Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — "My sole aim is to write good music."

"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."

"I have always sought to compose what is good and true."

"I am a man of the world, and I know how to behave."

"The only thing—I tell you this straight from the heart—that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with those people—and that music does not have a better reputat…"

"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 r…"