...alone, and of good cheer - say, travelling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions...force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory, and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself . . . my subject enlarges itself,...

...Listen to Mozart: When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer . . . my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and...force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory. ... If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this or that morsel to account,...

...alone, and of good cheer — say, travelling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions...they come, I know not; nor can I force them. Those pleasures that please me I retain in memory, and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to...

...about it, and cannot account for it. When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone . . . my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not; nor can I force them . . . All this fires my soul. . .All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing lively...

...that Johann Friedrich Rochlitz attributed to Mozart: When I am, as it were, completely myself. . . my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and...force them. Those ideas that please me, I retain in memory, and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. . . . All this fires my soul,...

...alone, and of good cheer; say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions...force them. Those ideas that please me, I retain in memory, and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it...

...alone, and of good cheer - say, travelling in a carriage, or waiking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions...and how they come, I know not; nor can I force them . . . why my productions take from my hand that particular form and style that makes them Mozartish,...

...letter to a friend, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote that the notes of his music came from outside himself: "Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them . . . nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively but I hear them, as it were, all at once."...

...Listen to Mozart, When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer. . . my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and...force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory. ... If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this or that morsel to account,...

...carriage, or walking after a good meal or during the night when 1 cannot sleep: it is on such cxcasioas that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence...force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory, and am accustomed, as I am told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon...