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• La música es un medio capaz de expresar el dramatismo oscuro y el arrebato puro, el sufrimiento y el éxtasis, la furia ardiente y fría, la melancolía y la alegría salvaje, y los matices más sutiles y la interacción de estos sentimientos que las palabras son incapaces de expresar y que son inalcanzables en la pintura y la escultura.

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  Mean, Dark, Feelings

  Translated in Music Journal, p. 37, September, 1965.

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

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Music, Believe, Mean

  "Testimony". Book edited by Solomon Volkov, transl. by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, P. 175, 2004.

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

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Cutting, Hands, Teeth

  "Shostakovich: A Life". Book by Laurel Elizabeth Fay, p. 92, 2000.

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• La verdadera música es siempre revolucionaria, porque consolida las filas del pueblo, lo despierta y lo conduce hacia adelante.

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  Real, People, Revolutionary

  Translated in Music Journal, p. 37, September, 1965.

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

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  Music, Running, Long

  "Testimony". Book edited by Solomon Volkov, p. 196, 1979.

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

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Paper, Vessel, Fragile

  "Testimony" by Solomon Volkov, p. 229, 1979.

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• Cada pieza musical es una forma de expresión personal para su creador... Si una obra no expresa el punto de vista personal del compositor, sus propias ideas, entonces, en mi opinión, ni siquiera merece nacer.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Views, Expression, Ideas

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• Those who have ears to hear, will hear

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  Orejas

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• 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.

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  Running, Writing, Long

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• A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.

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  Beautiful, Pieces, Matter

  "Composers on Music". Book by Josiah Fisk, p. 364, 1997.

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• The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.

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  Philosophical, Attention, Pay

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

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  Inspiring, Artist, Creative

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• A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Beautiful, Pieces, Prelude

  Letter to Isaac Glikman, (August 28, 1955) in "Composers on Music" edited by Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols, (p. 364), 1997.

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• The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

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  Tombstone, Symphony, Majority

  "Testimony" by Dmitri Shostakovich, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, (p. 156), 2004.

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• 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.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Pain, Order, Suffering

  "Testimony" by Dmitri Shostakovich, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, (p. 155), 2004.

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• ¿Qué pueden considerarse emociones humanas? ¿Seguro que no sólo el lirismo, la tristeza, la tragedia? ¿Acaso la risa no tiene también derecho a ese elevado título? Quiero luchar por el derecho legítimo de la risa en la música "seria".

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  Laughter, Sadness, Fighting

  "Sovetskoye Iskusstvo", quoted in "Shostakovich: A Life", transl. by Laurel Fay (2000) p. 77, November 5, 1934.

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

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  Evil, Music Is, Primitive

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

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  Correr, Creer, Gente

  "Testimony" by Dmitri Shostakovich, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, (p. 8), 2004.

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• Debemos pensar más en ello, y acostumbrarnos a la idea de la muerte. No podemos permitir que el miedo a la muerte nos sorprenda inesperadamente. Tenemos que hacer que el miedo nos resulte familiar, y una forma de hacerlo es escribir sobre él. No creo que escribir y pensar en la muerte sea propio sólo de los ancianos. Creo que si la gente empezara a pensar en la muerte antes, cometería menos errores tontos.

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  Mistake, Struggle, Writing

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• I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth . The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov . It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.

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  Thinking, Sticks, Muttering

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

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  Worship, Despise, Composer

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

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  Real, Escritura, Genio

  "Composers On Music: Eight Centuries of Writings". Book by Josiah Fisk, p. 355. In conversation with Isaac Glikman (July 4, 1966), January 30, 1997.

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• People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Art, People, Broken

  "Testimony". Book by Solomon Volkov, transl. by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, p. 159, 2004.

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• Football is the ballet of the masses.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Soccer, Football, Philosophical

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• Nuestro negocio es regocijarnos, nuestro negocio es regocijarnos.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Alégrate

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