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If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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I don’t know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel’s Bolero. Too bad – this is how I hear war.
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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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It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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