A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
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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 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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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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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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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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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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It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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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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The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
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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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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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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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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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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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