"In the long run, any words about music……" — Dmitri Shostakovich

In the long run, any words about music are less important than… - Dmitri Shostakovich

"In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music."

— Dmitri Shostakovich

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17 Quotes by Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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