Petrovich Mussorgsky Quotes

#1. Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Thomas A. Edison

#2. 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

#3. And at last Lee said, "What are those goddamn things on your head?" He sounded genuinely surprised. "Jesus, Ig. Are those horns?

Joe Hill

#4. Courage is all about taking action. Courage requires discipline, vitality, and guts to face those tasks in your profession that make you feel uncomfortable.

David Sandler

#5. Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

Frank A. Clark

#6. When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

Ralph Peters

#7. 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

#8. 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