The only thing-- I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with those people--and that music does not have a better reputation.. For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature! .. A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not--but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes--bad, if he always stays in the same place. If the archbishop would trust me, I would soon make his music famous; that is surely true. . Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Mozart was a man of great talent and he was able to make his music famous all over the world. However, Mozart's fame did not come from his travels. It came from his music. He was a man of great talents and he was able to make music that people would remember him for.

Even though Mozart was a man of great talents, he did not travel. Had he traveled, he would have been a different man and his music would have been different as well. A man of mediocre talents may be happy staying in a place where they are mediocre, but a man of superior talents will always rise by traveling places with superior talents, such as Salzburg

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