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Sergei Prokofiev has 10 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.
• Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.
• My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest…
• My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself…
• At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I…
• When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches…
• Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt…
• I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.
• I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

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