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- Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi. — Charles Rosen
- I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man.… — Jaco Pastorius
- 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
- Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully — Gyorgy Ligeti
- 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
- I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky. — Esa-Pekka Salonen
- The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks,… — Thomas Powers
- The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one… — Stanley Crouch