A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHReal music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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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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It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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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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He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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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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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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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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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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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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Football is the ballet of the masses.
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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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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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