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• A young man wrote to Mozart and said: Q: "Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing symphonies.
  Can you give me any suggestions as to how to get started?...
• I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart, asking advice as to how to compose a symphony.
  Mozart responded that a symphony was a complex and demanding form and that it would be better to start with something simpler....
• The Mozart School of Music should obviously be the first choice of any music student aware of its reputation.
  First of all, the Mozart School stresses intensive practice and training, so that students typically begin their training at a very young age....
• Homer: Dad, how come you never gave me any encouragement?
  Maybe I could have been something more than I am....
• Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times.
  In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. -- Edward Abbey...
• You just know when a relationship is about to end. My girlfriend called me at work and asked me how you change a lightbulb in the bathroom.
  It's very simple," I said. "You start by filling up the bathtub with water......
• Asked how she felt being the first woman to make a major-league team
  he said, "Like a pig in mud," or words to that effect, and then turned and released a squirt of tobacco juice from the wad of rum soaked plug in her right cheek....
• You have to play Mozart like Chopin and Chopin like Mozart. -- Pablo Casals (to Vladimir Horowitz)
• I give up then. If Mozart can't justify our continued existence, nothing can.
  -- Max, a man in love with the minutae and beauty of life, from ZOT!...