Quotes from Amadeus

“I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!”
― Peter Shaffer, quote from Amadeus

“Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.”
― Peter Shaffer, quote from Amadeus

“What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?”
― Peter Shaffer, quote from Amadeus

“God was singing through this little man to all the world.”
― Peter Shaffer, quote from Amadeus

“Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?”
― Peter Shaffer, quote from Amadeus

“Oh, you monster!No one exists but you, do they? You and your music!”
― Peter Shaffer, quote from Amadeus

“Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.

Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?”
― Peter Shaffer, quote from Amadeus

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