I will speak for you, Father. I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Confutatis maledictis" - when the wicked are confounded. "Flammis Acribus Adictis." How would you translate that?Antonio Salieri: Consigned to flames of woe.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Do you believe in it?Antonio Salieri: What?Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A fire which never dies, burning you forever?Antonio Salieri: Oh yes.
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.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?
While my father prayed earnestly to God to protect commerce, I would offer up secretly the proudest prayer a boy could think of: "Lord, make me a great composer. Let me celebrate Your glory through music and be celebrated myself. Make me famous through the world, dear God. Make me immortal. After I die, let people speak my name forever with love for what I wrote. In return, I will give You my chastity, my industry, my deepest humility, every hour of my life, Amen." And do you know what happened? A miracle!