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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.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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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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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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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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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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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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It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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