The majority of my symphonies are tombstones. - Dmitri Shostakovich - Quotesmemo.com

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Dmitri Shostakovich

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

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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.

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Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.

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

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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.

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