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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.
— Charles James
I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Life's like that. As we grow and change, some things we've experienced before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life.
— Richelle Mead
How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.
— Lorenz Hart
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Those who have ears to hear, will hear
— Dmitri Shostakovich
I'll never retire.
— Tony Bennett
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Clouds are on top for a reason. They float so high because they refuse to carry any burden!
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Two cents in the pocket, is better than no sense in the head.
— Anthony Liccione
If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.
— Joan Fontaine
Football is the ballet of the masses.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
— Edward Abbey
Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world.
— Simon McBurney
But you can't keep him in the dark when everything starts falling apart. You're not protecting him, you know. You're pushing him away.
— Rebecca Donovan
What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country.
— Bernie Sanders
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
— Galina Vishnevskaya
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
— A. C. Benson
It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Art destroys silence.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise...
— J.K. Rowling
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
