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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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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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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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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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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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