AMADEUS

The Man... The Music... The Madness... The Murder... The Motion Picture...

"I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes -- at an absolute beauty."

    --  Salieri
 

"Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect."

    --  Emperor Joseph II


 

"They're all so beautiful. Why don't I have three heads?"

    --  Wolfgang Amadeus Motzart
 

"Looks don't concern me, Maestro. Only talent interests a woman of taste."

    --  Katerina Cavalieri
 

"From now on we are enemies, You and I. Because You choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me only the ability to recognize the incarnation. Because You are unjust, unfair, unkind I will block You, I swear it. I will hinder and harm Your creature on Earth as far as I am able. I will ruin Your incarnation."

    --  Salieri

"Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not."

    --  Wolfgang Amadeus Motzart
 

"I will speak for you, Father. I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint... Mediocrities everywhere... I absolve you. I absolve you. I absolve you. I absolve you. I absolve you all."

    --  Salieri