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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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Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator. If a work doesn’t express the composers own personal point of view, his own ideas, then it doesn’t, in my opinion, even deserve to be born.
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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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Compose Hate Myself Thinking Worship
Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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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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Count Job Live Myself Natural Work
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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Emotion Fight Human Laughter Lyric Music Sadness Tragedy
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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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
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
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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Death Forever Kill Myself Order Starve Suffering
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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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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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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Football Mass Sports

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