Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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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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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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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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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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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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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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A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
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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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If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
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