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.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHFootball is the ballet of the masses.
More Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes
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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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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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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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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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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 majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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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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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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