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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
My son is my routine and priority, period!
— Cory Hardrict
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
Too bad she was dull--dull girls were unbearable--certainly pretty though.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
You're ready. Start making stuff.
— Austin Kleon
Football is the ballet of the masses.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.
— Neil Postman
I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.
— Robert Huber
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
Those who have ears to hear, will hear
— Dmitri Shostakovich
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Kim, you are literally so rude.
— Kourtney Kardashian
A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Do-it-yourself morality, informed by personal passion rather than old-fogey morality, is the new norm.
— Anonymous
They tended to give a little start when she spoke, as if the potted plant had tried to join in the conversation.
— Liane Moriarty
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
— Thucydides
It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
It is never too late to do anything in life.
— Momofuku Ando
Art destroys silence.
— Dmitri Shostakovich