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Dmitri Shostakovich

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.

Bolero, Brave, Charge, Doubt, Piece, War
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When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Believe, Believes, Despair, Man, Mean, Music

Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

Arouses, People, Real, Revolutionary

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.

Dark, Ecstasy, Expressing, Feelings, Fiery, Mean

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

Anyway, Cut, Cutting, Hands, Music, Teeth

Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator. . . If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point of view, his own ideas, then it doesnt, in my opinion, even deserve to be born.

Expression, Ideas, Opinion, Point, Views, Work
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