Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color mo…

- Galina Vishnevskaya

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.

- Galina Vishnevskaya

The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

- Galina Vishnevskaya