Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes

Football is the ballet of the masses.

Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.

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.

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.