Father Vogler Quotes in Amadeus (1984)

Antonio Salieri: Leave me alone.

Father Vogler: I cannot leave alone a soul in pain.

Antonio Salieri: Do you know who I am?

Father Vogler: It makes no difference. All men are equal in God's eyes.

Antonio Salieri: [leans in mockingly] *Are* they?

[Having played two pieces of music to Father Vogel, who does not recognize either]

Antonio Salieri: Can you remember no melody of mine? I was the most famous composer in Europe. I wrote 40 operas alone!

[suddenly inspired]

Antonio Salieri: Here, what about this one?

[he plays the first few bars of "Eine kleine Natchmuzik" while Father Vogel hums along]

Father Vogler: Yes, I know that! Oh, that's charming! I'm sorry, I didn't know you wrote what.

Antonio Salieri: I didn't. That was Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Father Vogler: [smile fades] The man you accuse yourself of killing.

Antonio Salieri: My plan was so simple. It terrified me. First I must get the death mass and then, I must achieve his death.

Father Vogler: [stares in horror] What?

Antonio Salieri: His funeral! Imagine it, the cathedral, all Vienna sitting there, his coffin, Mozart's little coffin in the middle, and then, in that silence, music! A divine music bursts out over them all. A great mass of death! Requiem mass for Wolfgang Mozart, composed by his devoted friend, Antonio Salieri! Oh what sublimity, what depth, what passion in the music! Salieri has been touched by God at last. And God is forced to listen! Powerless, powerless to stop it! I, for once in the end, laughing at him!

[beat]

Antonio Salieri: The only thing that worried me was the actual killing. How does one do that? Hmmm? How does one kill a man? It's one thing to dream about it; very different when, when you, when you have to do it with your own hands.