Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyThinkers

The Contradiction is what we are made of, and some of us reach a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed our restless spirit either by religion or philosophy.

Hard work is necessary. The muse doesn't come without being called.

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

Music is a subtlest language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Music is not the straw to which the drowning man clings; but a true friend, refuge, and comforter, for whose sake life is worth living

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the musical Christ.