Though I didn`t really know him, I met him at concerts a few times. I even played for him once, his Piano Trio, when I was a student at the Moscow Conservatoire.
- Vladimir AshkenazyEvery graduate at the conservatoire is able to compose a Symphony, and maybe it will even receive a performance. But to write a melody which is sung and played by hundreds of interpreters is something one really has to be born to - ideally in America.
- Wojciech Kilar