4 Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes on Work

Dmitri Shostakovich quotes on work

6. A creative artist works on his next composition because he is not satisfied with his previous one. When he loses a critical attitude toward his own work, he ceases to be an artist.

10. The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

19. 'I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.'

20. ' Rimsky-Korsakov used to say that he refused to acknowledge any complaints from composers about their hard lot in life. He explained his position thus: Talk to a bookkeeper and he'll start complaining about life and his work. Work has ruined him, it's so dull and boring. You see, the bookkeeper had planned to be a writer but life made him a bookkeeper. Rimsky-Korsakov said that it was rather different with composers. None of them can say that he had planned to be a bookkeeper and that life forced him to become a composer.'