Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — "Sleep is good, and death is better; but of course, to live is the best of all."

"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 industr…"

"The French are such asses, they are truly inept, for they have to go abroad for help."

"She will never learn the most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time, because from childhood she has designedly cultivated the habit of ignoring the beat."

"I cannot write in a hurry, for I have to think about everything."

"To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it."