Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Big picture, it's amazing to create characters and see them brought to life in the art. And to love that art. But I especially enjoy writing a character with heightened powers that aren't especially useful to him.

Even 'The Inevitability of Death' is kind of a funny song more than anything. I mean, I thought it would be funny imagining radio deejays cueing it up and announcing it as people are driving off to work.

In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death and the tragic.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

There are poets and there are grownups.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.