Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes About Writing

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Mistake, Struggle, Writing

• No creo que ni el autodesprecio ni el engrandecimiento estén entre las cualidades que definen a un artista... Beethoven podría haber sido perdonado si sus sinfonías se le hubieran subido a la cabeza. También se podría perdonar a Gretchaninoff si su Dobrinya Nikititch se le hubiera subido a la cabeza. Pero a ninguno de los dos se le podría perdonar que escribiera una obra amoral, servil, obra de un lacayo.

  Dmitri Shostakóvich

  Escribir, Artista, Pensar

  "Composers on Music". Book edited by Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols, p. 354, letter to Isaac Glikman (February 26, 1960), 1997.

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