As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.
Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career. - Alexander Borodin
Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.
- Alexander Borodin
As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief busin… - Alexander Borodin
As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief busin…
Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations. - Alexander Borodin
Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.
I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose. - Alexander Borodin
I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.
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