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The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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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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Believe Evil People Run Stop
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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Mistake Myself Possible Success Try Understand Wide
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
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Dedication Hands Music Myself Teeth
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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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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Business Happiness Ourselves Rejoice
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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Compose Hate Myself Thinking Worship
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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Fragile Head Paper Vessel
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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Leadership Music People Reality Revolution
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
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Average Genius Reality Writing
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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Count Job Live Myself Natural Work
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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Beautiful Greatness Music Performance
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 majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Majority Music Symphony
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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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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Football Mass Sports
In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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Important Music Myself Run Word

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