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“And of course Tchaikovsky is always with us. I don’t want to talk about it; I’m afraid that I’ll be misunderstood. Maybe it’s not right to talk about it. But it’s true. In everything that I did to Tchaikovsky’s music, I sensed his help. It wasn’t real conversation. But when I was working and saw that something was coming of it, I felt that it was Tchaikovsky who had helped me.”

- George Balanchine