Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
“The racist regime thought classical music was for the white audience only. Stravinsky insisted on performing for the black audience.” — BBC African journalist Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation . — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it. — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to… — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes you on a journey from Gregorian chant right through to… — John Tavener Copy Share Image
Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens… — Ennio Morricone Copy Share Image
“As Stravinsky says, art is nothing more than placing limits and working against them rigorously … and if we refuse to place… — Robert Wachter Copy Share Image
Since I didn't have any kind of formal training, it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin'… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
People are interested in certain ideas, in certain periods, and then that moves, and okay, now people are more interested in studying… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks,… — Thomas Powers Copy Share Image
If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
“The trombone and side-drums in the chamber music of Stravinsky will do well enough in a very smart house-party where all the… — Donald Francis Tovey Copy Share Image
You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
To this day, I still travel with scores. Every time I'm on a plane - it could be Stravinsky or Mozart or… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
“The man has accumulated a repertoire of facial tics and blinks that demand nothing less than a complete musical score by Stravinsky.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stravinsky influenced film music in general - those stabbing chords and rhythms from 'The Rite of Spring.' — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
“In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, working his hand in his armpit… — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never… — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
![“[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the Rite of Spring. Or, "I'm going to play you some 20th century obscure classical composer you don't know". Or, "Let's listen to some Charles Ives, let's sight read some Bartok violin duets"…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ee1/jon-gordon-1655_20th-century_phil-wood-put-on-some-igor-stravinsky-an_1463042.jpg)
