Top 20 Modest Mussorgsky Quotes
#1. I do not seek the mantle of genius. I am an appreciator, an observer, a preposition, and content in that, and that's me in a nutshell.
Matthew Pearl
#2. There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
Pablo Picasso
#3. In this world, the mistake is in where one says he has objections. There should be no objection to anything.
Dada Bhagwan
#4. Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
Mahatma Gandhi
#5. Life, wherever it reveals itself; truth, no matter how bitter; bold, sincere speech with people - these are my leaven, these are what I want, this is where I am afraid of missing the mark.
Modest Mussorgsky
#6. Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.
Zadie Smith
#7. In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
#8. There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.
Al Gore
#9. I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
#10. 2006, I started 'WineLibrary TV.' To build 'WineLibrary TV,' I started using Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter in 2008.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#11. I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.
Francois Mauriac
#12. Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea.
Alexander Pope
#13. China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.
Ai Weiwei
#14. Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.
Modest Mussorgsky
#15. I used to take my morning tea at her kiosk and I took an interest in what she was doing. I later learnt she was taking care of her grandchildren. Sadly, she was taken ill and had to close her nylon-walled smoky shack. But all the wit and cunning of the character came from her.
Stanley Gazemba
#17. My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
#18. People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You are the only one standing in your own way, so get started.
C.C. Chapman
#19. Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
Modest Mussorgsky
#20. Our friendship is stronger than most people because we talk and breathe in the same room and we eat and sleep in the same place
Jaejoong
