Rimsky Quotes

#1. I do not have voice for Russian music; I cannot be cute little peasant like in operas of Glinka or Rimsky-Korsakov. I am now never in Russia; I am Austrian citizen. But definitely I am Latin!

Anna Netrebko

#2. Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.

Noam Chomsky

#3. I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

#4. It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.

Howard Hodgkin

#5. Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable from it in the mind of its creator and native to it from the hour of its birth.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

#6. Save the world? I don't think so. I have my reasons. The world was lost a long time ago, and nothing's going to fix it, maybe not even science.

Austin Grossman

#7. Someday I'm going to marry someone like my mom and I'll be smiling all the time the way my Mom and Dad are.

Koushun Takami

#8. I love being part of a team, any team. Not just playing, but the camaraderie, the whole thing. It's just what I get off on.

Steve Nash

#9. People? People have been obsolete for years, They've made the world a place where there's no room left for their own kind.

Michael Ende

#10. What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

#11. Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil, judging by the quantity and value of the information it gave me!

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

#12. In a sense Toronto feels like home to me.

Keir Dullea