If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.


Said to Isaac Glikman, 1936; cited from Laurel Fay Shostakovich: A Life (2000) p. 92.

Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.