It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHHe fell like a chicken into the soup.
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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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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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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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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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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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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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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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 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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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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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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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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