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All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
All My Life
Audience
Every
Life
Love
Member
Music
My Life
Play
Play Music
Wanted
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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
Beautiful
Beauty
Christian
East
Embrace
Everyone
Hard
Heart
Middle
Middle East
Minister
Music
Muslim
People
President
Prime
Prime Minister
Them
Try
Want
Will
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Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
About
Been
Different
Every
Every Man
Experienced
Express
Fearlessly
Has-Been
He
Him
His
Independently
Knows
Man
Merely
Must
Opinion
Personally
Right
Slightly
Think
Thought
Variations
Which
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Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Absolutely
Art
Explain
Field
Final
Final Word
Incompetent
Literature
Me
Often
Our
People
Please
Why
Word
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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
All Night
Back
Bring
Came
I Came
Me
Moscow
Night
Old
Walk
Will
Years
Youth
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I have a very deep religious belief.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Belief
Deep
Religious
Religious Belief
Very
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I know that after my letter there will be undoubtedly an 'opinion' about me, but I am not afraid of it. I openly say what I think. Talent, of which we are proud, must not be submitted to the assaults of the past.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
About
Afraid
After
Am
I Am
I Think
Know
Letter
Me
Must
Openly
Opinion
Past
Proud
Say
Submitted
Talent
Think
Undoubtedly
Which
Will
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I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Because
Coming
Important
Important Role
Life
Like
My Life
Played
Role
States
United
United States
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I listened to Pablo Casals, which was a big change for me. Without hearing Casals, I would never have advanced as I did.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Advanced
Big
Big Change
Change
Did
Hearing
Listened
Me
Never
Which
Without
Would
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I never studied, but I had the best teachers.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Best
Had
Never
Studied
Teachers
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I played with the best conductors of the world.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Best
Conductors
Played
World
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If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound. That I think is very important. This is just one planet, like one family.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Does
Family
I Think
Important
Just
Just One
Like
Make
Me
Music
Need
People
Planet
Sound
Speech
Think
Through
Translation
Translator
Understand
Very
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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 Shostakovich's compositions and Prokofiev's were no longer to be played.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Board
Conservatory
Crash
First
His
Life
Longer
Moscow
My Life
Occurred
Out
Played
Posted
Put
Said
Severe
Stalin
Were
Which
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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
Aim
Beloved
Cello
Destination
Instrument
Life
Make
Piano
Violin
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Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Cannot
Greatest
History
Lessons
Music
Our
Part
Separated
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My mother carried me for 10 months. I asked her 'Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn't make me a beautiful face?' and mother told me, 'My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.'
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Asked
Beautiful
Busy
Carried
Extra
Face
Had
Hands
Heart
Her
Make
Making
Me
Month
Months
Mother
Son
Why
You
Your
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Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Age
Come
Conscience
Difficult
I Think
Important
Lie
Life
Made
Most
Now
Other
People
Reach
Suffer
Think
Very
Years
You
Your
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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
Back
Children
Foundations
Founded
Good
Good Way
Great
Home
Homeland
Make
Million
Money
More
Names
Now
Russia
Russian
Scholarships
Sponsored
Than
Use
Want
Way
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Of course, I know everything that happens in Russia. But even at the most dangerous moment or the most negative moment now, it's still 10 times better than what it was in the communist state.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Better
Communist
Course
Dangerous
Even
Everything
Happens
Know
Moment
Most
Negative
Now
Russia
State
Still
Than
Times
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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
After
Art
Balance
Beauty
Computers
Craving
Electronics
Etc
Giant
Going
Great
Great Progress
Human
Important
Important Role
Internet
Means
Must
People
Progress
Role
Soul
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