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.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHReal music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the 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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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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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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If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
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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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The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
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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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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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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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