What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? — Dmitri Shostakovich
It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over. — Dmitri Shostakovich
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth. — Dmitri Shostakovich
I don’t think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining — Dmitri Shostakovich
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 — Dmitri Shostakovich