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> [He fell like a chicken into the soup.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/he-fell-like-a-chicken-into-the-soup/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

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## More by Dmitri Shostakovich

> [When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/when-a-man-is-in-despair-it-means-that-he-still-believes-in-something/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

> [It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/it-s-about-the-people-who-have-stopped-believing-because-the-cup-of/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

> [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 -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/i-don-t-know-what-will-become-of-this-piece-our-brave-critics-will-no/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/i-feel-eternal-pain-for-those-who-were-killed-by-hitler-but-i-feel-no/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

> [I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/i-always-try-to-make-myself-as-widely-understood-as-possible-and-if-i/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

> [Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/many-consider-that-shostakovich-is-the-greatest-20th-century-composer/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/i-live-in-the-ussr-work-actively-and-count-naturally-on-the-worker/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

> [Football is the ballet of the masses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/football-is-the-ballet-of-the-masses/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

> [Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/music-is-good-not-evil-poetry-is-good-not-evil-primitive-but-oh-so/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

> [In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/in-the-long-run-any-words-about-music-are-less-important-than-the/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

> [Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/real-music-is-always-revolutionary-for-it-cements-the-ranks-of-the/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

> [The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/the-most-uninteresting-part-of-the-biography-of-a-composer-is-his/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

> [The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/the-real-geniuses-know-where-their-writing-has-to-be-good-and-where/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

> [What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/what-you-have-in-your-head-put-down-on-paper-the-head-is-a-fragile/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

> [We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/we-should-think-more-about-it-and-accustom-ourselves-to-the-thought/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

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