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


"The Power of Music" (1964), translated in Music Journal, September 1965, p. 37.

Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes

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

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

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

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