Mar 15, 2025
“When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer—say, travelling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not; nor can I force them.”
a letter attributed to Mozart, but is in fact a forgery as pointed out by Otto Jahn, in his biography “Life of Mozart”