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Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.

I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.

Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.

What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: Football is the ballet of the masses.

Football is the ballet of the masses.

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.

I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: Those who have ears to hear, will hear

Those who have ears to hear, will hear

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.

It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes: Art destroys silence.

Art destroys silence.