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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.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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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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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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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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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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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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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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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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The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
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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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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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