Top 61 Quotes About Tchaikovsky
#1. My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.
James Horner
#2. I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.
Joni Mitchell
#3. The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.
Gary Shteyngart
#4. When I was young, Tchaikovsky was ruined for me by conductors who made it slick and treacly. Hearing Valery Gergiev conduct Tchaikovsky has been a revelation - he brings out all its raw passion. And Gergiev with the super-virtuoso LSO - well, it's just the perfect combination.
Charles Hazlewood
#5. We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too ... obviously ... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.
Skitch Henderson
#6. I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."
Cy Twombly
#7. For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.
Gustavo Dudamel
#8. So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.
John O'Hara
#9. I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.
Sue Townsend
#10. now routinely listen to her. To have your mind explode, search "Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 FULL Argerich Charles Dutoit" and check out minute 31.
Timothy Ferriss
#11. My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.
Liberace
#12. If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.
Uzo Aduba
#13. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.
Seymour Stein
#14. The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water ... I don't think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky ... but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.
Leonard Bernstein
#15. I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.
Sufjan Stevens
#16. A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.
Gustavo Dudamel
#17. Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
Rabih Alameddine
#18. Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.
Eduard Hanslick
#19. You have waited for me past the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, past each of Saturn's rings. It's ridiculous, so stupid, I know, to cross the entire solar system just to hear you and Galina butcher Tchaikovsky. If ever there was an utterance of perfection, it is this. If God has a voice, it is ours.
Anthony Marra
#20. Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies, but when a melodic line is thwarted.
Slavoj Zizek
#21. I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good living bouncing around playing Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Barber, but I really think artists should keep pushing limits and trying new things.
Joshua Bell
#22. I enjoy the kind of characters that allow you to write the dark stuff. I love Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, and when I'm writing for Dracula or Jekyll & Hyde, I get a chance to use that vocabulary.
Frank Wildhorn
#23. The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.
Robert Gottlieb
#24. Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.
Chuck Berry
#25. It's Tchaikovsky's 'Another One Bites the Dust,'" said Crowley, closing his eyes as they went through Slough.
Terry Pratchett
#27. For me, listening to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in particular, there's an emotional aspect - very different kinds of emotional aspects from those two composers, nonetheless, very strong emotional aspects from both of those composers.
Crispin Glover
#28. The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
Solomon Short
#30. 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
#31. 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
#34. The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
#35. That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. A bandit, a man-hunter, a lawbreaker, a bow for hire. I never wanted any grand cause. If it looks like I'm fighting tyrants, it's only because the world's so damned full of them that you can't draw a sword without crossing some of their laws. Easy as easy, it is, to become an outlaw.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
#39. 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
#40. should result in a guileless Wasp artificer mouthing statements prepared
Adrian Tchaikovsky
#41. Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#42. Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#45. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#53. Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
#56. 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
#57. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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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