Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov quotes
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“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.”
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“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 the mind of its creator and native to it from the hour of its birth.”
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“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 the quantity and value of the information it gave me!”
-- 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 becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.”
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“A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.”
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Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
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