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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.

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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Emotion Fight Human Laughter Lyric Music Sadness Tragedy
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
It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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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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Born Creator Deserve Expression Form Music Personal Pieces Point
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
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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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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Death Forever Kill Myself Order Starve Suffering
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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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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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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Believe Despair Himself Man
In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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Important Music Myself Run Word
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
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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Beautiful Greatness Music Performance

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