李瑋玲指責兄長新加坡總理李顯龍，「對濫用職權無所顧忌，在李光耀去世僅一年後就搞出這麼個紀念名堂來... 假若當局就是想弄出個朝廷來的話，我作為李光耀的女兒，絕不允許李光耀的名字被一個不孝之子玷污。」（原文："has no qualms abusing his power to have a commemoration just one year after LKY died... if the power that be wants to establish a dynasty, LKY's daughter will not allow LKY's name to be sullied by a dishonourable son."），李顯龍發表聲明回應，認為妹妹的指稱「完全不屬實」。
1936年，Shostakovich因Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk受批判（muddle instead of music）打壓，第二年底，交出第五交響曲，極受好評。向來一直有個說法，Shostakovich把樂曲題為"a Soviet artist's creative response to just criticism"，向官方示好謀求翻身。在Julian Barnes的傳記小說中，他指出這句子其實來自一位傳媒人，不過Shotakovich本人也從沒否認就是了。
The Noise of Time: The Fifth Symphony's success was instant and universal. Such a sudden phenomenon was accordingly analysed by Party bureaucrats and tame musicologists, who came up with an official description of the work, to assist the Soviet public's understanding. They called his Fifth 'an optimistic tragedy'.
