If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

I'm going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.

My life is circus

Messages focused on miracle will breed in the mind of people the mentality that production is not necessary for prosperity

I love to stalk. I love to stalk you real, real good. I took your name home after our date and we had the best Google session of my life.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.

There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.