Quote #1
What I need is to believe in myself again- for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.
More from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Just as I was starting on my journey the idea came to me for a new symphony, this time with a program, but a program which will remain an e…
- 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.
- Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
- The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity.
- Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.
- Delibes' rich score for Sylvia led Tchaikovsky to declare that Swan Lake was 'poor stuff in comparison'.
- I like listening to it just as I like looking at a fuschia drenched with rain.