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 SHOSTAKOVICHIt’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
More Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes
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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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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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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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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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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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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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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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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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A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
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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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It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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