Detest Quote by Sergei Prokofiev Download Open image “I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.” — Sergei Prokofiev ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detest Devices Imitation Inspirational Music
“Unknowing imitation is almost a recipe for bad design. If you don’t know where your ideas are coming from, you’re probably imitating an imitator.” — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself. — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing. — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the people. He… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
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. — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt for his… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes. — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
I have never doubted the importance of melody. I like melody very much, and I consider it the most important element in music, and… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything… — Pamela Hansford Johnson Copy Share Image
In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
