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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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

Artist Creativity Previous Satisfaction Work
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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Emotion Fight Human Laughter Lyric Music Sadness Tragedy
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Majority Music Symphony
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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Compose Hate Myself Thinking Worship
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
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
Football is the ballet of the masses.
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Football Mass Sports
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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Born Creator Deserve Expression Form Music Personal Pieces Point
Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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Ability Ear Hear
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
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.
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Count Job Live Myself Natural Work
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
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
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 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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Mistake Myself Possible Success Try Understand Wide
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
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Dedication Hands Music Myself Teeth

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