Makarevich about the “soviet”, backward Russians and clowning with sanctions: 22 quotes

Depo.ua collected 22 quotes from Makarevich about fools, women and creators.

1. “Explain to me, a fool: Turkey shot down our plane. This is terrible and relations between countries, naturally, have deteriorated. We no longer want to buy Turkish goods. (...) Why not say in plain text - we are no longer with you Are we not friends and won’t buy anything from you? No, Rosselkhoznadzor is going to meet and explain to us that Turkish products, it turns out, do not meet the standards. As was the case with Riga sprats and Georgian wine - yesterday they still met, today they don’t. That’s why this clownery ?"

2. "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger." No, gentlemen: what does not kill us immediately kills us gradually. Don't create illusions for yourself"

3. “For many years now I have not deceived myself about the beauty of humanity, and yet three hypostases seem to me the most disgusting:

- a secret homosexual who is officially at war with homosexuality;

- a Jew who participates in the extermination of Jews (someone wants to replace “Jews” with any other nationality - no: only Jews were exterminated because they were Jews);

- a priest who does not believe in God"

4. “When I see how many people who seemed normal to me just yesterday turned out to be hopelessly deceived by propaganda, I feel nothing - neither compassion, nor anger, nor sympathy. They are simply terribly uninteresting to me. Long live the collapse of illusions!”

5. “I constantly say throughout my adult life: people, you don’t need to follow anyone. Learn to think for yourself, compare facts, circumstances and draw your own conclusions from this. We were given brains for this.”

6. “Any tyrant inevitably ends up in an illusory propaganda world, created by him. And even if he tries to look outside (which is unlikely), hell will his entourage let him do it. So Putin can quite seriously believe that we are no weaker America..."

7. “I don’t understand why they are trying to impose some kind of taxes on small businesses, which is now all hope. I don’t understand why officials’ salaries continue to grow, as does their number, while hospitals are closed and doctors are fired. That’s all for me incomprehensible. Because it contradicts logic, no matter how naive my logic may be."

8. “I don’t know why our country constantly goes in circles, constantly trying to step on the same rake. I don’t know the answer to this most important and terrible secret. I don’t understand why we are so separate. I would really like to know the answer to this question, but I don't have it"

9. “No one has canceled the laws of physics in the world (and we all live in one world, there is no other) And no matter how much you stretch the spring of idiocy and hatred, one day it will snap away. For those who stretched it.”

10. “As a child, it seems that among your peers there are smart people and fools, and adults are all smart. You just can’t imagine an adult fool. Over the years, gradually moving into the camp of adults, you realize with horror that there are many more fools here more"

11. “If a person has never, say, seen a bird in his life, then you can show him a mosquito and say that this is a bird, and he will think so until, of course, he meets a real bird. Or maybe he won’t meet "

12. “It is generally accepted that by the way a woman dances, you can determine what she is like in bed. This, it turns out, is not so. By the way a woman dances, you can only determine what she thinks about herself. She thinks how usually complete nonsense"

13. “The problem is that everyone drinks, but only a few create”

14. “All the years of Soviet power we struggled with something, sometimes with confusion instead of music, sometimes with the American infection - jazz, sometimes with Pasternak, sometimes with pseudoscience - genetics. It only ended with us falling even further behind the world. Then we came to our senses, ran to catch up, but didn’t catch up. And now we will lag even further behind the world. I don’t like much in the world and like it a lot, but it develops like a living being, according to natural laws. And we will be underdeveloped. Then that’s all for us to pass this path equally, but with a large lag"

15. “Musicians, like artists, have never had and cannot have any solidarity. Each artist is a small center of the Universe that revolves around him, or so he thinks. And each has his own thoughts and his own beliefs "What the hell is solidarity! How many artists - so many opinions"

16. “It’s scary when a person, not wanting to realize his inability to keep up with Time, pronounces a verdict on Time, and not on himself. Although you should blame neither Time nor yourself.”

17.

"I'm walking on the edge
I don't choose
A different path.
Saving me
Shouts - "Ondriusha,
Get back to dry land!"
Thanks, I know.
Sorry, I'm a coward.
Abundance of flags, lies and cattle,
Everything that makes me feel ashamed.
I'm not the best myself
And not the defendant
And here's the reward -
The newspaperman shouts:
"Who is your traveling companion?
But I don't need it.
Alone, supposedly, in the field?
So I'm not a warrior!
They can't hear -
And I'm calm.
I don't argue with anyone.
I don't regret anything.
I walk along the edge, sir.
I'm walking, sir."

18. “I felt that if I sat and remained silent, then I would simply be crap. All my life I reserved for myself the luxury of having the right to convey my opinion to those who are interested. This is the state of an absolutely normal person. I wish the same for you. Therefore, I feel very good"

19. “When I was little, my parents instilled in me the idea of what is good and what is bad. It largely coincides with the commandments. Stealing is not good, lying is not good. We need to help the weak, and not finish him off. Willy-nilly, we design our idea of what is good and what is bad influences the behavior of our country, if we feel like its citizens. And today this behavior does not at all coincide with my ideas of what is good and what is bad. That’s all."

20. “War is one of the proven ways to retain power. Unfortunately, I don’t see any other reasons.”

21. "I've seen chameleon people change colors on command
How the sun cannot break through the smoke for years
I saw a dragon with a thousand mouths
whose name is "power"
Here only love will make you stay alive
I've seen water turn to blood in rivers and oceans
How death opens its gates to the young
But if music is the voice of God, then music is love
And only love will make you stay alive."

22. “I am constantly asked by young people who did not catch the Soviet Union, is our time similar to Brezhnev’s in terms of ideological background? In some ways, yes. But there are two significant differences. Then we were assured that the American imperialists, of course, dream of starting a world war , but the ordinary American working class is against it, and these workers are our friends. Now the friendly working class has somehow been forgotten."

Andrey was born in Moscow. At the age of 12, he began to learn to play the guitar on his own. At the age of 14 he founded the group The Kids, at 15 - “Time Machine”.

He entered the Moscow Architectural Institute, from where he was expelled for his passion for rock. He worked as an architect for some time, but then decided to devote himself entirely to music.

In parallel with his work as part of the Time Machine, he released several solo albums. At the age of 47 he founded the group "Creole Tango Orchestra".

He took part in numerous opposition rallies. He repeatedly spoke out against the war between Russia and Ukraine. He performed in Svyatogorsk in front of refugees, for which a campaign of persecution of the singer began in Russia - the country began to massively ban his concerts and lectures.

This year Makarevich performed in Kyiv, Dnepropetrovsk and Lvov.

The material uses quotes from Makarevich’s books, his Facebook page, interviews for Echo of Moscow, Novaya Gazeta, Voice of America, Maxim