It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHIt’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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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 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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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 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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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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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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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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If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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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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