a Sergei Taneyev, 7 dicembre 1877; citato in Ballet in the Letters of Tchaikovsky http://www.aha.ru/~vladmo/d_txt17.html; The Swan Lake http://www.salikon.dk/loom_tchaikovsky_swan_lake.html
Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij frasi celebri
citato in Piero Faggioni, prefazione a Don Quichotte, Stagione Lirica 1985-86, E. A. Teatro San Carlo, Napoli, 1985, pp. 13 e 17
dal Diario, 9 ottobre 1886
Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij: Frasi in inglese
Letter to a nephew (late February 1893)
Diary entry for October 9, 1886, quoted in Nicolas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective (1953), p. 73.
Letter to a nephew (9 February 1893) Just prior to composing his "Pathetique" Symphony (No. 6)
“After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.”
Quoted in Hans Gal, The Musician's World (1965)
“I am a Russian, Russian, Russian, to the marrow of my bones.”
quoted in Geoffrey Hindley, The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music (1982) ISBN 0896731014