I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.
You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life. - Mstislav Rostropovich
You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.
- Mstislav Rostropovich
The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks thro… - Mstislav Rostropovich
The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks thro…
There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love. - Mstislav Rostropovich
There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage. - Mstislav Rostropovich
Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.
I never studied, but I had the best teachers. - Mstislav Rostropovich
I never studied, but I had the best teachers.
All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience. - Mstislav Rostropovich
All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas. - Mstislav Rostropovich
I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.
The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pi… - Mstislav Rostropovich
The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pi…
When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice. - Mstislav Rostropovich
When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
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