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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.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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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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Childhood Compose Interest Reading
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
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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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
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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Important Music Myself Run Word
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Majority Music Symphony
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
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
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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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
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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Chicken Fall Soup
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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