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A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

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.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

Born Creator Deserve Expression Form Music Personal Pieces Point
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
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
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
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Average Genius Reality Writing
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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Believe Despair Himself Man
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
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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Attention Best Chance Hold Pay Survive Treat Yourself
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Majority Music Symphony
Football is the ballet of the masses.
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Football Mass Sports
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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Beautiful Greatness Music Performance
Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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Ability Ear Hear
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
He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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Chicken Fall Soup
Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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Business Happiness Ourselves Rejoice
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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Fragile Head Paper Vessel
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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Brave Doubt Imitation Pieces War

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