What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHThe majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
More Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes
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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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If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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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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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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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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It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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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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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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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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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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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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