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