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Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927), Birth: 27-3-1927, Death: 27-4-2007 Mstislav Rostropovich Quotes
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You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through the performance, and the performer and the listener will walk together with the soul of the composer, and with God.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.
Mstislav Rostropovich

10.
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovichs compositions and Prokofievs were no longer to be played.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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I never studied, but I had the best teachers.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots - Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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I played with the best conductors of the world.
Mstislav Rostropovich

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I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.
Mstislav Rostropovich