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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-prokofiev/at-home-we-didnt-talk-about-religion-so-gradually-the-question-faded/)

[Sergei Prokofiev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergei-prokofiev/)

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## More by Sergei Prokofiev

> [At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-prokofiev/at-home-we-didnt-talk-about-religion-so-gradually-the-question-faded/)

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> [Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-prokofiev/formalism-is-music-that-people-don-t-understand-at-first-hearing/)

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> [My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-prokofiev/my-chief-virtue-or-if-you-like-defect-has-been-a-tireless-lifelong/)

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> [In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the people. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-prokofiev/in-my-view-the-composer-just-as-the-poet-the-sculptor-or-the-painter/)

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> [My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-prokofiev/my-mother-had-to-explain-that-one-couldn-t-compose-a-liszt-rhapsody/)

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> [When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-prokofiev/when-the-second-world-war-broke-out-i-felt-that-everyone-must-do-his/)

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> [Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt for his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-prokofiev/of-course-i-have-used-dissonance-in-my-time-but-there-has-been-too/)

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> [There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-prokofiev/there-are-still-so-many-beautiful-things-to-be-said-in-c-major/)

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> [My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-prokofiev/my-mother-had-to-explain-that-one-couldnt-compose-a-liszt-rhapsody/)

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> [I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-prokofiev/i-detest-imitation-i-detest-hackneyed-devices/)

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> [I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-prokofiev/i-want-nothing-better-more-flexible-or-more-complete-than-the-sonata/)

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> [I have never doubted the importance of melody. I like melody very much, and I consider it the most important element in music, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-prokofiev/i-have-never-doubted-the-importance-of-melody-i-like-melody-very-much/)

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> [It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-prokofiev/it-seemed-to-me-that-had-haydn-lived-to-our-day-he-would-have/)

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> [I strenuously object to the very word "grotesque" which has become hackneyed to the point of nausea...I would prefer my music to be described…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-prokofiev/i-strenuously-object-to-the-very-word-grotesque-which-has-become/)

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