"I write music, it’s performed. After all, my……" — Dmitri Shostakovich
"I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music."
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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17 Quotes by Dmitri Shostakovich
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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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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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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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