What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHWhat can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn’t laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in “serious” music.
More Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes
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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.
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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn’t laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in “serious” music.
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A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There’s more of a chance then that they’ll survive.
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I don’t know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel’s Bolero. Too bad – this is how I hear war.
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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don’t succeed, I consider it my own fault.
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