"This is my best work, but only because The Flaming Angel is my greatest."

"My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idio…"

"The first was the classical line, which could be traced back to my early childhood and the Beethoven sonatas I heard …"

"It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the…"

"The time is past when music was written for a handful of aesthetes. Today vast crowds of people have come face to fac…"

"In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the people. H…"

"Mr. Prokofiev's pieces have been contributions not to the art of music, but to national pathology and pharmacopoeia. …"

"Within the vast, virtually limitless piano repertoire, the piano sonatas of Sergei Prokofiev occupy a special place. …"

"What is striking in Prokofiev’s playing is the outstandingly convincing expression and uncommon rhythmic plasticity..…"

"Prokofiev plays simply, clearly, and sensibly. Calmly, but without coldness of an over-confident virtuoso, brilliantl…"