Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHI always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don’t succeed, I consider it my own fault.
More Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes
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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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The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
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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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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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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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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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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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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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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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It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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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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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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I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin’s orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.
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