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Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes
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A great piece of music is beautiful, regardless of how it is performed (Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes)
Those who have ears to hear, will hear (Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes)
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true! (Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes)
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones (Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes)
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something (Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes)
Football is the ballet of the masses (Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes)
In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music (Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes)
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise (Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes)
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel (Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes)
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 Shostakovich Quotes)