Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Quotes About Music
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Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.
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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.'
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Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.
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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.
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When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".
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Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
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