Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.

Dmitri Shostakovich's Popular Quotes

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

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

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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 t…

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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 – a…

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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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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

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It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.

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Those who have ears to hear, will hear

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The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

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