"Music is a means capable of expressing dark……" — Dmitri Shostakovich
"Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture."
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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17 Quotes by Dmitri Shostakovich
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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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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or…
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has…
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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