Various authors and musicians have credited The Master and Margarita as inspiration for certain works.
British singer Mick Jagger was inspired by the novel in writing the song "Sympathy for the Devil".[31] Will Self's foreword to the Vintage edition of the Michael Glenny translation of the novel suggests the same, and Jagger's then girlfriend Marianne Faithfull confirmed it in an interview with Sylvie Simmons from the magazine Mojo in 2005.[32] Jagger says so himself in the Stones biodoc Crossfire Hurricane