Alfred Schnittke famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.
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I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts.
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For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.
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I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.
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Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?
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For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.
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I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.
-- Alfred Schnittke
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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
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Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
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The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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You know what’s really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.
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