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

Dmitri Shostakovich

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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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Count Job Live Myself Natural Work
He fell like a chicken into the soup.
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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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Death Forever Kill Myself Order Starve Suffering
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
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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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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
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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Majority Music Symphony
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
It’s about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
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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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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
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Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
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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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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

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