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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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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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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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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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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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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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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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