It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHA creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
More Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes
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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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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 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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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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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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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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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 majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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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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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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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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The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
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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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