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Dmitri Shostakovich on Music

1906–1975 Russia

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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

The Power of Music (1964)

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

What do you think of Puccini?
[ Britten: "I think his operas are dreadful." ]
No, Ben, you are wrong. He wrote marvellous operas, but dreadful music.

Lord Harewood The Tongs and the Bones (1981)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dmitri Shostakovich (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.