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I listened to Pablo Casals, which was a big change for me. Without hearing Casals, I would never have advanced as I did.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
I have a very deep religious belief.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.
— Joel McHale
When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
I played with the bestconductors of the world. — Mstislav Rostropovich
I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
I never studied, but I had the best teachers.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs.
— Harry F. Byrd
I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.
— Cardinal Richelieu
A sniper is cowardly, sneaky; he kills from a distance, unseen.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
