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.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHI 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.
More Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes
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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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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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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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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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A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
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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 real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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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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It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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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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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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