"A creative artist works on his next composition……" — Dmitri Shostakovich
"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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17 Quotes by Dmitri Shostakovich
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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too…
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We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of…
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What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that…
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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my…
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I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In…
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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can…
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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy…
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