4 Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes on Memory

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes on memory

15. 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.

16. The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

24. 'What you have in your head, put it down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.'

26. 'I shall never forget that event - a boy was brutally killed by a Cossack with his sabre.'