26 Quotes by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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

Mozart is the musical Christ.

It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity.

Handel is only fourth rate. He’s not even interesting.

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.

What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love.

Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.