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Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

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Dmitri Shostakovich

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.

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

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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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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.

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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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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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