Why did Mozart compose music?

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience ... it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular …

It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.

You got me blowin, blowin my mind, Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart? ~ Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Interviewer: 'If you were stranded on a desert island, what one album would you want with you?'