3 Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes on Revolution

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes on revolution

9. Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

27. '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.'

32. 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.