Mstislav Rostropovich Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
-
Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
-
I think violence can never be justified.
-
It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
-
Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
-
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
-
Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
-
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
-
I always wanted to be a leading man!
-
I'm yet to attack French cooking, you know, where it's intense, following recipes and stuff. I'm more of a 'make it up' kind of thing.
-
Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
-
My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
-
The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
-
I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!
-
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
-
Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.
-
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!
-
I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.
-
Lesson one, introduce yourself to everyone when you walk into a room. Don't act like you're too bougie to say, 'Hello.'
-
I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
-
Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they meet. Thus they will find that there is no one who has not much of good; and when they see some great folly, or some meanness, or some cowardice, or some fault or weakness in another person, they should examine themselves carefully. Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves - although perhaps it does not come out in the same way - and then they must try to conquer that fault.
-
There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
-
All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
