Top 36 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Quotes
#1. What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
Jackie Kennedy
#2. 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.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#3. Ideally you want to be a couple of months ahead on a project. But I rarely am.
Frank Quitely
#4. It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.
Katherine Paterson
#5. 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.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#7. Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.
Amitabh Bachchan
#8. I'm just capable of entertaining the fantastic idea that, in certain circumstances, Homo sapiens might actually be capable of thinking. It must be worth a go, since we've tried everything else.
Terry Pratchett
#11. What I need is to believe in myself again - for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#12. 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.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#13. 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.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#14. Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#15. Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#16. Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.
Fausto Cercignani
#20. 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.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#21. I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.
Kevin Whately
#22. 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.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#23. For almost as long as she could remember Maerad had been imprisoned behind walls. She was a slave
Alison Croggon
#24. A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#27. 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.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#29. 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.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#30. 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
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#32. Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza
#34. Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#35. 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.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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