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The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There’s more of a chance then that they’ll survive.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
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Dedication Hands Music Myself Teeth
What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn’t laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in “serious” music.
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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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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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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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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.
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I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.
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Count Job Live Myself Natural Work
It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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Believe Evil People Run Stop
Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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Business Happiness Ourselves Rejoice
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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Compose Hate Myself Thinking Worship
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
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Average Genius Reality Writing
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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Believe Despair Himself Man
A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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