Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes

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

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Music, Believe, Mean

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

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

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Real, People, Revolutionary

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

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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.

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Mean, Dark, Feelings

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

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

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Cutting, Hands, Teeth

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

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

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  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 Shostakóvich

  Paper, Vessel, Fragile

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

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• Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point of view, his own ideas, then it doesnt, in my opinion, even deserve to be born.

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Views, Expression, Ideas

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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.

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Running, Writing, Long

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• Those who have ears to hear, will hear

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Orejas

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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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• 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 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.

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Beautiful, Pieces, Matter

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

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

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

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

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Evil, Music Is, Primitive

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• The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Tombstone, Symphony, Majority

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

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• What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in "serious" music.

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Laughter, Sadness, Fighting

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

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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 Shostakóvich

  Pain, Order, Suffering

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

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• We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up on us unexpectedly. We have to make the fear familiar, and one way is to write about it. I don't think writing and thinking about death is characteristic only of old men. I think that if people began thinking about death sooner, they'd make fewer foolish mistakes.

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  Mistake, Struggle, Writing

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

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Running, Believe, People

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

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• Football is the ballet of the masses.

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Soccer, Football, Philosophical

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

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Worship, Despise, Composer

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

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  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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• Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Alégrate

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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 Shostakóvich

  Art, People, Broken

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

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