Tchaikovsky Quotes
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Tchaikovsky Quotes & Sayings
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Mozart is the musical Christ.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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
Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."
— Cy Twombly
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
Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.
— Chuck Berry
Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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
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
I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.
— Sue Townsend
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.
— Robert Gottlieb
should result in a guileless Wasp artificer mouthing statements prepared
— Adrian Tchaikovsky
I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.
— Sufjan Stevens
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
A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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
It's Tchaikovsky's 'Another One Bites the Dust,'" said Crowley, closing his eyes as they went through Slough.
— Terry Pratchett
The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.
— Gary Shteyngart
Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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
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
That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.
— Adrian Tchaikovsky
It's easy, once the lamps are lit, to scoff at shadows.
— Adrian Tchaikovsky
Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.
— Adrian Tchaikovsky
Handel is only fourth rate. He's not even interesting.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
— Solomon Short
Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The muse doesn't come without being called.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
I feel I shall live a long time.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ah, this is more like it. Tchaikovsky,
— Terry Pratchett