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.
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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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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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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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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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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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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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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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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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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