Respecting Artist Quotes by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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• Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.
• I feel I shall live a long time.
• The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity
• A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.
• What I need is to believe in myself again— for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role…
• It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains,…
• Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
• The muse doesn't come without being called.
• When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".
• Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.
• If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings…
• Sometimes I observe with curiosity that uninterrupted activity which, independent of the subject of any conversation I may be carrying on, continues…

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