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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.

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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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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If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
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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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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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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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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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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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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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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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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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