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.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHA creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
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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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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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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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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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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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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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Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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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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It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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