I was attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing “simple” music, blamed for deserting “modernism,” accused of renouncing my “true Russian heritage.” People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried “sacrilege”: “The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone.” To them all my answer was and is the same: You “respect,” but I love.
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"To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell."
"Every time I compose, I think of a fresh way of doing it."
"What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators."
"Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them."
"Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right."
unknown, likely written or spoken in response to criticism
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