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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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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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Believe Evil People Run Stop
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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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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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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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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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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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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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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I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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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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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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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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