26 Quotes by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

If you do not want to write, at least spit on a piece of paper, put it in an envelope, and send it to me. You are not taking any notice of me at all. God forgive you – all I wanted was a few words from you.

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

The muse doesn’t come without being called.

A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.

Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

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

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing.

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

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