Shostakovich Symphony Quotes

#1. Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Jean De La Bruyere

#2. Torture is a good way to get people to talk but a poor method of finding out the truth; people confess whether there is any reality to the confession or not.

-Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

M T Anderson

#3. Adventure lies not in the places we seek, but in the moments we create in the places we treasure.

Rochelle Carr

#4. The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

Elia Kazan

#5. The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

Edward Abbey

#6. For so long, I've only had one-sided feelings for other people. I've completely forgotten how good it feels to be loved.

Hinako Takanaga

#7. There was a time when I fancied myself as a barrister but it takes years to qualify and even then you can end up earning less than $10,000 a day. So when I saw an advertisement for a course to become a barista I decided to settle for that.

Michael McGirr

#8. So here we are. The two of us. Me and this geezer I gotta kill. Sittin here in a car showroom office, lookin at each other, lettin Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony take us to places too beautiful and too fuckin sad for words.

Ian Ayris

#9. Figo is as important to England as Beckham is.

Mark Lawrenson

#10. A wall of rock separates us, but I can still feel him. I press my hand on to the cold stone.

Dannielle Wicks

#11. The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

Marianne Moore

#12. I know now, like drumbeats. Portentous, and a little sinister, like tympani strikes at the start of a gloomy symphony. Shostakovich, maybe.

Lee Child

#13. It meant different things to different people, but somehow it meant them all intensely. Shostakovich's words just confuse the issue. His symphony itself is what remains. Listen to it. It is your symphony to write with him.

M T Anderson

#14. Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of.

Nikki Rowe

#15. When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

Dave Brubeck

#16. In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.

Harold Geneen

#17. The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#18. The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

Robert Fulghum

#19. Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire

Carlos Luiz Zafon