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!

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

God was singing through this little man to all the world.

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

Oh, you monster!No one exists but you, do they? You and your music!

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?