Quotes by Mstislav Rostropovich - Page 1

I have a very deep religious belief.
Mstislav Rostropovich / Cellist
Belief
Religious Belief
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Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.
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Business
Communism
Garbage
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I never studied, but I had the best teachers.
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Teacher
Best Teacher
Teachers
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I played with the best conductors of the world.
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Conductor
World
Conductors
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You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.
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Color
Composer
Needs
Palette
Composers
Creators
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All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
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Members
Play
Wanted
Life Love Music
All My Life
Member
Play Music
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I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.
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Important
Roles
United States
Life My Life Important
Important Role
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I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.
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Ideas
Perfect
Technique
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Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.
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Lessons
Separated
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It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
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Aim
Beloved
Destination
Piano
Violin
Cello
Instrument
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You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.
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Heart
Perfect
Play
Technique
Love Music Heart
Making
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I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.
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All Night
Moscow
Night
Years
Youth
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When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
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Instruments
Voice
Cello
Instrument
Seemed
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I listened to Pablo Casals, which was a big change for me. Without hearing Casals, I would never have advanced as I did.
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Advanced
Big Change
Listened
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Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
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Art
Smile
Fields
Incompetent
Literature
People
Please
Art Me People
Art Me Literature
Explain
Final Word
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The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.
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Famine
Heat
Moscow
Life War Time
Difficult Time
Houses
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There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
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Joy
Perfection
Suffering
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Of course, I know everything that happens in Russia. But even at the most dangerous moment or the most negative moment now, it's still 10 times better than what it was in the communist state.
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Communist
Russia
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Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age.
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Conscience
Life Age Your
Lie
Suffer
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If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound. That I think is very important. This is just one planet, like one family.
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Just One
Family Music Me
Planet
Translation
Translator
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My mother carried me for 10 months. I asked her 'Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn't make me a beautiful face?' and mother told me, 'My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.'
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Carried
Extra
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I know that after my letter there will be undoubtedly an 'opinion' about me, but I am not afraid of it. I openly say what I think. Talent, of which we are proud, must not be submitted to the assaults of the past.
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Talent
Afraid
I Am Me Past
Letter
Openly
Submitted
Undoubtedly
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The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.
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Feminine
Hero
Masculine
Register
Violin
Voice
Cello
Concerto
Instrument
Soprano
Tenor
Whereas
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Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.
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Beautiful
Christian
East
Embrace
Heart
Middle East
Prime
Prime Minister
Minister
Muslim
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People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
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Art
Computers
Balance
Craving
Electronics
Etc
Great Progress
Mean
People
Giant
Important Role
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In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovichs compositions and Prokofievs were no longer to be played.
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Boards
Firsts
Moscow
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In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovich's compositions and Prokofiev's were no longer to be played.
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Conservatory
Crash
Decree
Moscow
Said
Severe
Life My Life First
Played
Board
Longer
My Life
Occurred
Posted
Stalin
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The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through the performance, and the performer and the listener will walk together with the soul of the composer, and with God.
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Artist
Forget Everything
Soul
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Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.
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Freedom
Every Man
Opinion
Experienced
Express
Fearlessly
Inculcated
Merely
Personally
Variations
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Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots - Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke.
Mstislav Rostropovich / Cellist
Home
Children
Good Way
Homeland
Russia
Foundations
Scholarships
Sponsored
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