Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

I grew up with Cinderella. So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.

Popular Topics
Scholar, Beauty, Once Upon A Time, Living My Life, Education, Weak, Confidence, Path Of Love, Passive, Wonder, I Like You, Difference, Surprised, Perfect Love, Motor, Inspiration, Lives, Bear, Smile, Poor, Movie Love, Bible, English, Stories, Disco, Body, Math, Creative, Night, Fly, Memorable, Thank You, Thinking, Funny, Kindness, Kindly, Inspiring, Achievement, Adventure, Integrity, Philosophy, Loves, Wisdom, Culture, Faith, Stage, Future, Technical, Things, Worry
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

Deep, Deep Understanding, Nannies, Nanny, Tales, Thanks
Same Author Quotes

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

Addressing, Art, Humanity, Mean, Vegetarian Diet

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music.

External, Feelings, Shades, Sound, Speech, True

In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.

Berlioz, Giants, Homer, Rough, Two

And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet we eat it with pleasure. And their cold cherry soup is a horror to us, and yet it sends a German into ecstacy. In short, symphonic development is just like German philosophy and soup-all worked out and systematized. When a German thinks, he reasons his way to a conclusion. Our Russian brother, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and then might amuse himself with some reasoning.

Amuse, Brother, Philosophy, Pleasure, Systematized, Thinking

I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.

Idea, Ideas, Inspired, Opera, People
Similar Quotes