Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
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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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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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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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If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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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 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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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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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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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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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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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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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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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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