It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHIf they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
More Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes
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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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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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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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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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If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
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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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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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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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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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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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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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