Top 42 Mstislav Rostropovich Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Mstislav Rostropovich

#1. Learns a lot and lots more to learn.

#2. 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.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#3. We live but a fraction of our lives.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.

Wendell Berry

#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. What you mons making all the racket about? You wake me again and I'll put the voodoo hex on you. All you only call me Tuberculosis behind my back now. You want the real thing?" Sergeant "T. B" Tinkerbelle Bettina Jones.

Ellen Dawn Benefield

#8. 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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#9. Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

Jonas Gahr Store

#10. 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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#11. God sometimes allows problem to come into our lives to encourage us to make a step forward

Sunday Adelaja

#12. True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency. Make it a habit, and when the need arises you will be in practice.

Billy Graham

#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. Don't be rude to the middle-agers," he says. "They didn't even have microwaves when they were young, and that's really, really sad." "Look, that's not my fault," I say, pointedly. "We lived without iPhone 6+. Sometimes life is hard.

Tarryn Fisher

#22. Because there was no way I was letting that vision play out. I had a future I wanted, and by God, I was going to fucking get it.

Aileen Erin

#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. Seventy years after Marx's death, one third of the human race lived under regimes ruled by communist parties which claimed to represent his ideas and realise his aspirations.

Eric Hobsbawm

#26. I never studied, but I had the best teachers.

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#27. All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

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#28. How can Vicky drive this crate?" Carson fumed. "It's arthritic, it's sclerotic, it's a dead car rolling. Doesn't she ever give it an oil change, is the thing lubed with sloth fat, what the hell?

Anonymous

#29. In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but a microscope to investigate the creative process behind every company and its price.

George Gilder

#30. 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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#31. I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.

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#32. 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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#33. Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.

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#34. Human scrambled around, totally oblivious to the hell that burned beneath them. They were like children, so addicted to their toys they'd probably never notice the mortal world collapsing.

Cecily White

#35. 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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#36. 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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