Art is what you can get away with.

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be wa…

We had a dim premonition that power-mad gangsters would one day use art itself as a way of deadening men's minds.

Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.

You ask if I would have been different without 'Party guidance'? Yes, almost certainly. No doubt the line I was pursuing when I wrote the Fourth Symphony would…