Quotes by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Page 1

Mozart is the musical Christ.
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Christ
Musical
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I feel I shall live a long time.
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Feels
Long
Long Time
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The muse doesn't come without being called.
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Life
Muse
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I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.
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Nutcrackers
Plot
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Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.
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Doe
Heart
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Handel is only fourth rate. He's not even interesting.
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Handel
Interesting
Rate
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Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.
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Music
Ask Me
Sitting Down
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Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.
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Music
Mad
Reason
Would Be
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Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
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Music
Work
Inspiration
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When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".
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Music
Joy
Spirit
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After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.
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Lasts
Notes
Prison
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The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity
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Creative
Process
Roots
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A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.
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Artist
Hands
Self
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Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
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Highest
Spheres
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Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.
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Failing
Made
Masters
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What I need is to believe in myself again — for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.
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Believe
Needs
Roles
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To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing
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Past
Regret
Whole Life
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I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.
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Music
Morning
Piano
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Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.
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Mean
Powerful
Soul
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Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.
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Expression
Feelings
Mean
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What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love.
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Moments
Sometimes
Violence
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I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.
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Joy
Soul
Symphony
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It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.
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Brain
Ideas
Inspiration
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If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings would break and the instrument be shattered into fragments.
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Artist
Inspiration
Long
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Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor the players liked the finale, which I also think rather horrible.
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Honesty
Player
Thinking
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Sometimes I observe with curiosity that uninterrupted activity which, independent of the subject of any conversation I may be carrying on, continues its course in that department of my brain that is devoted to music.
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Brain
Curiosity
Independent
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We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it halfway, we easily become indirect and apathetic.
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Artist
Hands
Self
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Only music clarifies, reconciles, and consoles. But it is not a straw just barely clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector, and comforter, and for its sake alone, life in this world is worth living. Who knows, perhaps in heaven there will be no music. So let us live on the earth while we still have life!
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Faithful
Heaven
World
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How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'
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Music
Soul
Writing
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There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond to the first invitation. We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavouring to meet it half-way, we easily become indolent and apathetic. We must be patient, and believe that inspiration will come to those who can master their disinclination.
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Artist
Believe
Inspiration
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…You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music. Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven's gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. It is not the straw to which the drowning man clings; but a true friend, refuge, and comforter, for whose sake life is worth living
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Beautiful
Philosophy
True Friend
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