The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHI 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.
More Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes
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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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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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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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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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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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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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I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.
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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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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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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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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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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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