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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

Dmitri Shostakovich

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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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Business Happiness Ourselves Rejoice
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
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Majority Music Symphony
A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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Compose Hate Myself Thinking Worship
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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Chicken Fall Soup
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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Believe Evil People Run Stop
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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Mistake Myself Possible Success Try Understand Wide
Football is the ballet of the masses.
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Football Mass Sports
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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Comment History Important Music Myself Performance Writing
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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Beautiful Greatness Music Performance
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
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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Childhood Compose Interest Reading
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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Leadership Music People Reality Revolution

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