The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good a… - Dmitri Shostakovich

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

Dmitri Shostakovich

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Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet composer and pianist. Many of his works mark the epochs of Soviet history, or explore his own position as an artist in a communist state. Since his death there has been much controversy as to his private political views.

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Native Name: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович

Alternative Names: Shostakovich • Shosty • Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich • Dmitrij Šostakovič • Dmitri Dmitrievitch Chostakovitch • Dimitri Shostakovich • Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich • Dmitriii Dmitrievich Shostakovich

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The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.

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

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

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