{"author":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart","author_id":"Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart","total_quotes":27,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart","tags":["genius","love"],"id":1678,"author_id":"Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart"},{"text":"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.","author":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart","tags":["fear","silence","speak"],"id":96164,"author_id":"Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart"},{"text":"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.","author":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart","tags":["art","genius","inspirational"],"id":98109,"author_id":"Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart"},{"text":"As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.","author":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart","tags":["death","last-words"],"id":138938,"author_id":"Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart"},{"text":"Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa—Who knows most, knows least.","author":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart","tags":["essence","italian","melody","music","proverb"],"id":141859,"author_id":"Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart"},{"text":"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.","author":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart","tags":["love","faith","compassion "],"id":155410,"author_id":"Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart"},{"text":"I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.","author":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart","tags":["success","music","great "],"id":162626,"author_id":"Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart"},{"text":"Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell death, and who will stand by my Constanze, if you do not stay?","author":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart","tags":["constanze-mozart","death","last-words"],"id":163038,"author_id":"Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart"},{"text":"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.","author":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart","tags":["criticism","mozart","reviews"],"id":170357,"author_id":"Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart"},{"text":"I write as a sow piddles.","author":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart","tags":["music"],"id":175877,"author_id":"Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}