8 quotes
It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
Testimony (1979)
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
Testimony (1979)
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
Testimony (1979)
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
Testimony (1979)
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.
Testimony (1979)
I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.
Testimony (1979)
The Allies enjoyed my music, as though trying to say: Look how we like Shostakovich's symphonies, and you still want something more from us, a second front or something.
Testimony (1979)
People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.
Testimony (1979)