Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes on Revolution
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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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'Beethoven was a revolutionary. If you read his letters, you will realize how much he wished to arouse the public by his new musical ideas.'
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He did not write about this war and that revolution, but about war and revolution in general, the state of mind and emotion, not facts.