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

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Source : "Composers On Music: Eight Centuries of Writings". Book by Josiah Fisk, p. 355. In conversation with Isaac Glikman (July 4, 1966), January 30, 1997.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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