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It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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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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Born Creator Deserve Expression Form Music Personal Pieces Point
He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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Chicken Fall Soup
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
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
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Majority Music Symphony
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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Evil Goodness Music True
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
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
Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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Business Happiness Ourselves Rejoice
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
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
In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
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Important Music Myself Run Word
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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Brave Doubt Imitation Pieces War
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
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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Fragile Head Paper Vessel
Football is the ballet of the masses.
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Football Mass Sports

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