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Dmitri Shostakovich

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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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Emotion Fight Human Laughter Lyric Music Sadness Tragedy
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Majority Music Symphony
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
I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don’t succeed, I consider it my own fault.
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Mistake Myself Possible Success Try Understand Wide
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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Childhood Compose Interest Reading
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
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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Evil Goodness Music True
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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Compose Hate Myself Thinking Worship
Football is the ballet of the masses.
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Football Mass Sports
I don’t know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel’s Bolero. Too bad – this is how I hear war.
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Brave Doubt Imitation Pieces War
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.
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Death Forever Kill Myself Order Starve Suffering
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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Beautiful Greatness Music Performance
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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Leadership Music People Reality Revolution
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
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Artist Creativity Previous Satisfaction Work
Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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Ability Ear Hear

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