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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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It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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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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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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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.
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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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