Degrees Quote 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…

— Sergei Prokofiev

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

— Sergei Prokofiev

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Sergei Prokofiev

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

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

— Sergei Prokofiev

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.

— Sergei Prokofiev

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