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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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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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Important Music Myself Run Word
Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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Ability Ear Hear
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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Compose Hate Myself Thinking Worship
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
A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
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Artist Creativity Previous Satisfaction Work
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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Death Forever Kill Myself Order Starve Suffering
Football is the ballet of the masses.
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Football Mass Sports
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
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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Believe Despair Himself Man
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
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
He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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Chicken Fall Soup
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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Beautiful Greatness Music Performance
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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Evil Goodness Music True
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 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

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