Felt Quote by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Only music clarifies, reconciles, and consoles. But it is not a straw just barely clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector, and comforter,…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Mozart is the musical Christ.

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Sometimes I observe with curiosity that uninterrupted activity which, independent of the subject of any conversation I may be carrying on, continues its course…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond to the…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The muse doesn't come without being called.

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky