Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes on Society

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1. I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.

2. There can be no music without ideology. The old composers, whether they knew it or not, were upholding a political theory. Most of them, of course, were bolstering the rule of the upper classes.

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

13. It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.

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