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.
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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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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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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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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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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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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It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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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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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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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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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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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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