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.
A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. - Dmitri Shostakovich
A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
- Dmitri Shostakovich
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something. - Dmitri Shostakovich
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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 t… - Dmitri Shostakovich
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 t…
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – a… - Dmitri Shostakovich
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – a…
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward. - Dmitri Shostakovich
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones. - Dmitri Shostakovich
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over. - Dmitri Shostakovich
It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
Those who have ears to hear, will hear - Dmitri Shostakovich
Those who have ears to hear, will hear
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity. - Dmitri Shostakovich
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
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