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In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can. -- Maurice Baring
As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow. -- F. Murray Abraham
People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction. -- Cecilia Bartoli
I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think of myself as a bit of a Salieri, looking with longing eyes at Mozart. -- Stephen Fry
I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart. -- Thomas Lennon
Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri. -- F. Murray Abraham
Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was 16 and spent most of his life in Vienna. He's the key composer between classic music and romantic music. Beethoven was the beginning of romantic music, and he was the teacher of Beethoven and Schubert. -- Cecilia Bartoli
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can." -- Maurice Baring

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