Football is the ballet of the masses.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHI 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.
More Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes
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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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A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
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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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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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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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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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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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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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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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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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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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