What was evident was that Mozart was simply written down music already finished in his head. And music, finished as no music is ever finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and the structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at an absolute beauty. ~ Peter Shaffer (spoken by Antonio Salieri in Shaffer's play Amadeus and slightly reworded in the movie adaptation of the play)

The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment. ~ Peter Shaffer

Mozart's music represents neither the prolonged sigh of faith that characterizes so much of the music written before his time, nor the stormy idealism which cl…

Designing an opera by Mozart is like doing something for God - it's a labor of love. ~ Maurice Sendak

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your pure…

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created…