Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Music, Mad, Would Be

• Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Music, Work, Inspiration

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

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Music, Sitting Down, Ask Me

• 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.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Music, Morning, Piano

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

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Music, Joy, Spirit

• How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Music, Writing, Soul

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