Quote #24

'What you have in your head, put it down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.'

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  2. 'Every composer should be able to play his own compositions at the piano.'
  3. 'When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.'
  4. 'I shall never forget that event - a boy was brutally killed by a Cossack with his sabre.'
  5. 'For some reason, people think that music must tell us only about the pinnacles of the human spirit, or at least about highly romantic vill…
  6. 'Beethoven was a revolutionary. If you read his letters, you will realize how much he wished to arouse the public by his new musical ideas.'
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  8. 'Football is the ballet of the masses.'

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