Quotes from Sergei Prokofiev

There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my father died; my response to his death was atheistic.