Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
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.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

Count
It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
He fell like a chicken into the soup.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

Chicken Soup
Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

Ear
In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

Word
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

Compose Worship
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.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

Order Starve
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 SHOSTAKOVICH

Creator Expression Form Pieces Point

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