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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

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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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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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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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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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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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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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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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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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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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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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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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