Peter Tchaikovsky Quotes

I have never encountered anything more false and foolish than the effort to get truth into opera.  In opera everything is based upon the not-true.

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The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity, shoots up through the earth, puts forth branches, leaves, and finally blossoms.

Music is not illusion, but revelation rather. Its triumphant power lies in the fact that it reveals to us beauties we find nowhere else, and that the apprehension of them is not transitory, but a perpetual reconcilement of life.

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