The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
“We should have known that the only reason that Shostakovich’s nightmare restored us to ourselves was so we’d be compelled to drink… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth. — Charles James Copy Share Image
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for… — Galina Vishnevskaya Copy Share Image
Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But Dmitri Shostakovich and Boris Pasternak and Naguib Mahfouz were also right; never leave the homeland. Leave and your connections to the… — Hisham Mitam Copy Share Image
When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms.… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
“In a regime where words are watched, lies are rewarded, and silence is survival, there is no truth. - Symphony for the… — M T Anderson Copy Share Image
“That was how I learned that no is stronger than yes. (Shostakovich already knew that.) It takes two yesses for I to… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“And so the Red Army, squeezed between two of the most brutal dictators in human history, fought on. - Symphony for the… — M T Anderson Copy Share Image
“So here we are. The two of us. Me and this geezer I gotta kill. Sittin here in a car showroom office,… — Ian Ayris Copy Share Image
I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
“Young Shostakovich-Mitya-was nine, relatively old, when he began piano lessons. His first instructor was his mother, who, when she saw his rapid… — Solomon Volkov Copy Share Image
“Best listened to in a windowless room, better than best in an airless room—correctly speaking, a bunker sealed forever and enwrapped in… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“For those who listened attentively to his strong voice, filled with anxiety and, at times, breaking with despair, Shostakovich had become a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Outside Soviet Russia, and following the last symphonies of Mahler, Nielsen and Sibelius, an element of obsolescence has unmistakably attached itself to… — Pauline Fairclough Copy Share Image
I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“The ‘secret’ of Shostakovich, it was suggested—by a Chinese neurologist, Dr Dajue Wang—was the presence of a metallic splinter, a mobile shell-fragment,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“In response to a plea in early 1941 from his colleague and friend, the writer Marietta Shaginyan, who was newly infatuated with… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
