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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.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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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 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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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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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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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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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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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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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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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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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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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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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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