"Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements……" — Dmitri Shostakovich
"Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward."
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17 Quotes by Dmitri Shostakovich
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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…
- 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…
- 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.
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- What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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