“All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing... and...” – Salieri, Amadeus ... Movie Quotes Database

Salieri Martin Cavani

[to Father Vogler]

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing... and then made me mute. Why? Tell me that. If He didn't want me to praise Him with music, why implant the desire? Like a lust in my body! And then deny me the talent?

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Salieri From now on, we are enemies... You and I. Because You choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward 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 Your merciful God. He destroyed His own beloved rather than let a mediocrity share in the smallest part of His glory. He killed Mozart and kept me alive to torture! 32 years of torture! 32 years of slowly watching myself become extinct. My music growing fainter, all the time fainter till no one plays it at all, and his... Old Salieri Leave me alone. Father Vogler I cannot leave alone a soul in pain. Old Salieri Do you know who I am? Father Vogler That makes no difference. All men are equal in God's eyes.