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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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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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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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The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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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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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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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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A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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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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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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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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Dedication Hands Music Myself Teeth

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