1812 CANNON

some stagehand probably: mr. tchaikovsky sir we can’t actually hit the drum this hard it will break the instrument
tchaikovsky, wheeling a cannon into the theater: does it look like i give a fuck, johann

"People like me sound like a lot of big cannons"
– Mao Zedong

"Whenever I hear people say classical music is boring I just want to remind them that the 1812 Overture called for a cannon to be fired a total of 16 times."

"They told me I could use any instrument I wanted, so I chose cannons."
– Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

"Very loud and noisy and completely without artistic merit, obviously written without warmth or love."
– Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky