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.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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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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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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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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It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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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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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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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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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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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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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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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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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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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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