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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.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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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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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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Those who have ears to hear, will hear.
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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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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
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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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Mistake Myself Possible Success Try Understand Wide
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
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
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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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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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
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Fragile Head Paper Vessel

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