Shostakovich Quotes
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Shostakovich Quotes & Sayings
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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 am his, and he shall do with me just as he likes.
— George MacDonald
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.
— Charles James
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
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
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind.
— Nelson Mandela
Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
It's good to be curious about many things.
— Fred Rogers
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
— Andy Rooney
Immigration reform almost happened under President George W. Bush. Twice. And it was comprehensive.
— Mark McKinnon
Those who have ears to hear, will hear
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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
Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
— Tommy Lasorda
Football is the ballet of the masses.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there.
— Nora Roberts
The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
— Edward Abbey
Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world.
— Simon McBurney
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
I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.
— Michael Kiwanuka
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
— Galina Vishnevskaya
Ignorance could be said is written in bold letters all over the institution that is supposed to be a shining light to the world
— Sunday Adelaja
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
— Ludwig Von Mises
It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Art destroys silence.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.
— Jonathan Franzen
