I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Musician's Little Book of Wisdom - 1996, by Scott E. Power.
Letter as published in The Letters of Mozart & His Family - 1938 translated and edited by Emily Anderson.
Letter by Mozart, as quoted in a journal entry - 12-12-1856 - The Journal of Eugene Delacroixas translated by Walter Pach - 1937.
Spoken on his deathbed to his sister-in-law, Sophie Weber - 05-12-1791, from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel - 1906.
As spoken to Michael Kelly, from Reminiscences of Michael Kelly, of the King's Theatre, and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, including a period of nearly half a century; with Original Anecdotes of many distinguished Personnages, Political, Literary, and Musical - London, Henry Colburn, 1826; digitized 2006.
Spoken in Prague, 1787, to conductor Kucharz, who led the rehearsals for Don Giovanni, from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel - 1906.
Letter to Leopold Mozart - 04-04-1787, from The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas by Andrew Steptoe - 1988.
I care very little for Salzburg and not at all for the archbishop: I shit on both of them.
Letter to Leopold Mozart - 12-07-1783, from The Complete Operas of Mozart: a critical guide By Charles Osborne - 1983.
My fatherland has always the first claim on me.
Letter to Leopold Mozart - 24-11-1781, from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel - 1906.
As I love Mannheim, Mannheim loves me.
Letter to Leopold Mozart - Mannheim, 12-11-1778, from Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters, ed. Robert Spaethling - 2000.