More from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  1. The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity.
  2. Delibes' rich score for Sylvia led Tchaikovsky to declare that Swan Lake was 'poor stuff in comparison'.
  3. Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
  4. I like listening to it just as I like looking at a fuschia drenched with rain.
  5. 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.
  6. 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…
  7. What I need is to believe in myself again- for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.

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