"As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts."

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How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky