I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist. . . … - Dmitri Shostakovich

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I am an experimenter, or rather I used to be one. Then I stopped working, and since then people think I am a theoretician.

Dmitri Shostakovich

I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist. . . Beethoven could have been forgiven if his symphonies had gone to his head. Gretchaninoff could also be forgiven if his Dobrinya Nikititch went to his head. But neither one could be forgiven for writing a piece that was amoral, servile, the work of a flunky.

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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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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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