What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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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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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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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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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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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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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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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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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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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 real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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