Schnittke Quotes

#1. I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

Alfred Schnittke

#2. It is often idle to attempt to oppose ignorance and absurdity by such feeble instruments as truth and reason, and the wisest managers of mankind have generally been most successful when their plan has been to counteract one folly by means of the influence of another.

Jacob Abbot

#3. O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#4. I set down a beautiful chord on paper - and suddenly it rusts.

Alfred Schnittke

#5. Preparation is the key to your success. You cannot dismiss the process and expect to be truly successful.

Linda Gibson

#6. Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'

Alfred Schnittke

#7. As I lay there, I realized I had been wrong before, this was the most wonderful moment of my life.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. Man is a wolf to man.
[Lat., Homo homini lupus.]

Plautus

#9. We Indians are a strange race; we send MOM to Mars, but listen to mom-in-law and look for the moon.

Twinkle Khanna

#10. I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They've taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.

Josie Loren

#11. Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.

Susan L. Taylor

#12. The number of managers with great track records in a given market depends far more on the number of people who started in the investment business (in place of going to dental school), rather than on their ability to produce profits.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.

Alfred Schnittke

#14. For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.

Alfred Schnittke

#15. When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

Dean Rusk

#16. It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.

Sally Mann

#17. Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

Kenneth Koch

#18. People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone.

Allan Savory

#19. I love floral prints for little girls, and I love mixing prints.

Kourtney Kardashian

#20. For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

Alfred Schnittke

#21. I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

Alfred Schnittke

#22. I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.

Alfred Schnittke