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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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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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Artist Creativity Previous Satisfaction Work
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
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
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
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
He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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Chicken Fall Soup
Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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Business Happiness Ourselves Rejoice
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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Compose Hate Myself Thinking Worship
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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Beautiful Greatness Music Performance
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
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Majority Music Symphony
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
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 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
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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