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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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“What I need is to believe in myself again— for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.”
— Letter to a nephew (9 February 1893) Just prior to composing his "Pathetique" Symphony (No. 6)
“I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a giftless bastard! It annoys me that this self-inflated mediocrity is hailed as a genius.”
— Diary entry for October 9, 1886, quoted in Nicolas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective (1953), p. 73.
“After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.”
— Quoted in Hans Gal, The Musician's World (1965)
“I am a Russian, Russian, Russian, to the marrow of my bones.”
— quoted in Geoffrey Hindley, The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music (1982)
“This evening I feel sad and am shedding tears because this morning while wandering in the woods I was unable to find a single violet. What an old sniveller I am...!”
— quoted in Geoffrey Hindley, The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music (1982)
“Fate... hangs over our heads like the sword of Damocles and inexorably distills a slow and deadly venom. One must bend to it and abandon oneself to boundless despair...”
— quoted in Geoffrey Hindley, The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music (1982)

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“What I need is to believe in myself again— for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.”
— Letter to a nephew (9 February 1893) Just prior to composing his "Pathetique" Symphony (No. 6)
“I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a giftless bastard! It annoys me that this self-inflated mediocrity is hailed as a genius.”
— Diary entry for October 9, 1886, quoted in Nicolas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective (1953), p. 73.
“After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.”
— Quoted in Hans Gal, The Musician's World (1965)
“I am a Russian, Russian, Russian, to the marrow of my bones.”
— quoted in Geoffrey Hindley, The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music (1982)
“This evening I feel sad and am shedding tears because this morning while wandering in the woods I was unable to find a single violet. What an old sniveller I am...!”
— quoted in Geoffrey Hindley, The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music (1982)
“Fate... hangs over our heads like the sword of Damocles and inexorably distills a slow and deadly venom. One must bend to it and abandon oneself to boundless despair...”
— quoted in Geoffrey Hindley, The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music (1982)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.