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People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.
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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.
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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Born:
September 25, 1906
Died:
August 9, 1975
(aged 68)
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