I used to think it was static when I heard it on the radio.
I don’t like jazz. When I hear jazz, it’s as if I had gas on the stomach.

Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev, April 1963
In: William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2004); p.590.
See also: Khrushchev on Modern Art, ” Encounter, Apr.1963, pp.101-3