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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.


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



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



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.



I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.



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.



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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.



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.



I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.

I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.



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.



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.





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