I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.

It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on…

— Jennifer Grant

“In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, working his hand in his armpit to produce…

— Craig Raine

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I've got a very wide taste in art. I like Russian icon painters. I like Salvador Dali. It's like music. Sometimes you want to…

— Peter Webber

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk…

— Penn Jillette

“The racist regime thought classical music was for the white audience only. Stravinsky insisted on performing for the black audience.”

— BBC African journalist

I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.

— Ernest Newman

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

— Leo Kottke

In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep…

— Anthony Burgess

“The man has accumulated a repertoire of facial tics and blinks that demand nothing less than a complete musical score by Stravinsky.”

— Anonymous

“The trombone and side-drums in the chamber music of Stravinsky will do well enough in a very smart house-party where all the conversation is…

— Donald Francis Tovey

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

— Duke Ellington

People are interested in certain ideas, in certain periods, and then that moves, and okay, now people are more interested in studying this, and…

— Charles Koch