Salzburg Quotes

• 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.

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  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Love   Marriage   Flower  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher

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• Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

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  Henri Rabaud

  Music   Country   Museums  

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• The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.

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  Cecilia Bartoli

  Winter   Nightlife   Restaurants  

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• 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, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

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  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Death   Opportunity   Keys  

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• Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

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  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Spiritual   Doing What You Love   Making Love  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher

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• The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

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  Henri Rabaud

  Pockets   Shut Up   Salzburg  

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• Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

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  Jonathan Carroll

  Running   Rain   Rivers  

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• As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .

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  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Goal   Death And Dying   Salzburg  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only asking for music, it's demanding music of him.

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  Eric Weiner

  Moving   Cities   Musical  

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.

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  Rick Atkinson

  Thank You   Country   Memorial Day  

  "Rick Atkinson talks "The Guns at Last Light"". Interview with John Barron, www.chicagotribune.com. May 10, 2013.

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