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Quotes from The Power of Music — Dmitri Shostakovich

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)

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.

The Power of Music (1964)

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