This Week at The Classical Station

Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky: "I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames Les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous." Source: liveabout.com

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Michael Tilson Thomas: "If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music." Source: wisesayings.com

Robert Schumann: “In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.” Source: Rachel Taylor Geier

Aaron Copland: "I don't compose. I assemble materials." from The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man by Aaron Copland/Wikiquote.org

Ludwig van Beethoven: “Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.” Source: Goodreads.com

From ClassicFM - Bela Bartok: "Competitions are for horses, not artists."

Manuel de Falla: "A partir de ese momento algo como una convicción tan temerosa como profunda me impulsaba a dejarlo todo para dedicarme completamente al estudio de la composición."  "From that moment on, something like a conviction as fearful as deep, impelled me to give up everything to devote myself entirely to the study of composition." Source: www.manueldefalla.com

Riccardo Muti: "The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude."

Luciano Pavarotti: "It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera."

Dmitri Shostakovich: “A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.”

André Previn: "The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played."

Michael Tilson Thomas: "Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director."

Claudio Monteverdi: “The end of all good music is to affect the soul.”

Aaron Copland: “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”