Tchaikovsky Quotes

Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

— Chuck Berry

Tchaikovsky was one of the great melody writers of all time.

— James Newton Howard

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

— Cy Twombly

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

— Solomon Short

I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.

— Sufjan Stevens

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

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their…

— Seymour Stein

The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

— Gary Shteyngart

The trick with 'Nutcracker' was figure out how much, and where, we could the Tchaikovsky - using as much as we possibly…

— James Newton Howard

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip…

— Liberace

If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.

— Uzo Aduba

I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.

— Sue Townsend

When I was young, Tchaikovsky was ruined for me by conductors who made it slick and treacly. Hearing Valery Gergiev conduct Tchaikovsky…

— Charles Hazlewood

“There I was, listening to four students play something that had been written in another time in another country and it seemed…

— Harry Cauley

Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous…

— Slavoj Žižek

On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than…

— Leonard Slatkin

For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of…

— Gustavo Dudamel

I enjoy the kind of characters that allow you to write the dark stuff. I love Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, and when I'm…

— Frank Wildhorn

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the…

— Gustavo Dudamel

The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of…

— Leonard Bernstein

He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of…

— Ann Patchett

I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in…

— Vladimir Putin

“The work had its own history of struggle. Originally intended as a showpiece for pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, it was dismissed by that…

— Stuart Isacoff

They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was…

— Vladimir Putin

[Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I…

— Bill Walton

“He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want…

— Ayn Rand

For me, listening to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in particular, there's an emotional aspect - very different kinds of emotional aspects from those…

— Crispin Glover

So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman…

— John O'Hara