Cutting Quote by Dmitri Shostakovich Download Open image “If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.” — Dmitri Shostakovich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cutting Hands Ifs Music Pens Teeth
I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Well, predominately, if I'm writing for another artist, I'm sitting there with them and we're writing it together. — Finneas Copy Share Image
For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right. — Heston Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Somebody hand me the scissors because I'm about to cut some people out of my life. — SONYA PARKER Copy Share Image
I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands. — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves,… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
“I'll be writing as long as I can hold a pen in my curled, crimped arthritic hands and then I'll dictate it, if it… — Wanda Lea Brayton Copy Share Image
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
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 -… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
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… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault. — Dmitri Shostakovich 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 of the… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true! — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
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The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions-… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
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