Pyotr Tchaikovsky Quotes

#1. As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.

Judy Woodruff

#2. For as long as life breathes in us, we must continue to hope, to believe, to trust, to run our race, and to finish it with flying colors.

Kcat Yarza

#3. Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#4. My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

Jack Kevorkian

#5. Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#6. 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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#7. Become what our Heavenly Father desires you to become.

Dallin H. Oaks

#8. Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.

Guru Nanak

#9. 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

#10. I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#11. Porgy is ... an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.

George Gershwin

#12. 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

#13. The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

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#14. 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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#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?

Abraham Kaplan

#18. Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.

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#19. 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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#20. The muse doesn't come without being called.

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#21. When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".

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#22. Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

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#23. 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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#24. Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it's not championship. It's the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.

Carlos Slim

#25. The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.

Joanna Baillie

#26. As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

Andy Hertzfeld

#27. 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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#28. Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

Charles Baxter

#29. Kids can be harsh, especially when they get jealous.

Alia Shawkat

#30. A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.

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#31. Mozart is the musical Christ.

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#32. Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

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#33. 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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#34. After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

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#35. Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

Thomas Sprat

#36. 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

#37. 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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#38. Handel is only fourth rate. He's not even interesting.

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#39. Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content.

Francine Prose

#40. I feel I shall live a long time.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#41. 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