For some reason, people think that music must tell us only about the pinnacles of the human spirit, or at least about highly romantic villains. Most people are average, neither black nor white. They're gray. A dirty shade of gray. And it's in that vague gray middle ground that the fundamental conflicts of our age take place.


Page 94 - Testimony (1979)

Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes

For some reason, people think that music must tell us only about the pinnacles of the human spirit, or at least about highly romantic villains. Most...

For some reason, people think that music must tell us only about the pinnacles of the human spirit, or at least about highly romantic villains. Most...

For some reason, people think that music must tell us only about the pinnacles of the human spirit, or at least about highly romantic villains. Most...

For some reason, people think that music must tell us only about the pinnacles of the human spirit, or at least about highly romantic villains. Most...