It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.

What do you think of Puccini? [ Britten: 'I think his operas are dreadful.' ] No, Ben, you are wrong. He wrote marvellous operas, but dreadful music.

People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.

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…

It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is …

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from chil…

Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno.