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.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHOur business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
More Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes
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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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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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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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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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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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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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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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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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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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Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator. If a work doesn’t express the composers own personal point of view, his own ideas, then it doesn’t, in my opinion, even deserve to be born.
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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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