The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHThe 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 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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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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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.
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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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It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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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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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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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator. If a work doesn’t express the composers own personal point of view, his own ideas, then it doesn’t, in my opinion, even deserve to be born.
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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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