Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil, judging by…

- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually be…

- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable from it in…

- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov