Quotes by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

…You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music. Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven’s gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. It is not the straw to which the drowning man clings; but a true friend, refuge, and comforter, for whose sake life is worth living

Beautiful

Philosophy

True Friend

A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.

Artist

Hands

Self

After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

Lasts

Notes

Prison

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.

Honesty

Player

Thinking

Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.

Failing

Made

Masters

Handel is only fourth rate. He’s not even interesting.

Handel

Interesting

Rate

How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry…As the poet Heine said, ‘Where words leave off, music begins.’

Music

Soul

Writing

I feel I shall live a long time.

Feels

Long

Long Time

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.

Joy

Soul

Symphony

I like the plot of The Nutcracker – not at all.

Nutcrackers

Plot

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Artist

Ask Me

Beautiful

Believe

Brain

Christ

Creative

Curiosity

Doe

Expression

Failing

Faithful

Feelings

Feels

Handel

Hands

Heart

Heaven

Highest

Honesty

Ideas

Independent

Inspiration

Interesting

Joy

Lasts

Life

Long

Long Time

Mad

Made

Masters

Mean

Moments

Morning

Muse

Music

Musical

Needs

Notes

Nutcrackers

Past

Philosophy

Piano

Player

Plot

Powerful

Prison

Process

Rate

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Quotes by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.

After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

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.

Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.

Handel is only fourth rate. He’s not even interesting.

I feel I shall live a long time.

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.

I like the plot of The Nutcracker – not at all.

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