Mstislav Rostropovich Quotes

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 Shostakovich's compositions and Prokofiev's were no longer to be played.

Mstislav Rostropovich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: March 27, 1927 - April 27, 2007

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I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.

John Catsimatidis

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When you are part of a cartel, you don't have a Costco card that says, 'I'm a card-carrying member of the cartel.'

Matthew Heineman

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Official truths are often powerful illusions.

John Pilger

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I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

Stu Jackson

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I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

Tony Judt

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I've got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the basement. We'd play basketball, mini-sticks, baseball in the backyard, football, whatever it was. We were busy 24/7.

Rob Gronkowski

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The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.

Ruben Blades

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I'm fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibson's extraordinary work 'The Passion of the Christ' were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization.

Michael Moriarty

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I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

Mindy Kaling

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I love observing people.

Liv Tyler

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I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that I don't think of them as work in the usual sense of the word.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Joseph Addison

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