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 SHOSTAKOVICHEvery 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.
More Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes
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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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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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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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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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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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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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The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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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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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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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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