My music... they started without me!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Whom did they choose?Antonio Salieri: Herr Zummer.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Herr Zummer? But the man's a fool, he's a total mediocrity!Antonio Salieri: No, no, he has yet to achieve mediocrity.
Antonio Salieri: My father, he did not care for music. When I told him how I wished I could be like Mozart, he would say; "Why? Do you want to be a trained monkey? Would you like me to drag you around Europe, doing tricks like a circus freak?"Antonio Salieri: How could I tell *him*... what music meant to me?
The restored third act was bold, brilliant. The fourth... was astounding.