Been Quote by Charles Hazlewood

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

— Cy Twombly

Tchaikovsky was one of the great melody writers of all time.

— James Newton Howard

I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.

— Sufjan Stevens

Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard,…

— George Antheil

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.

— Eduard Hanslick

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad…

— Jane Asher

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

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

[Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated…

— Bill Walton

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the…

— Dave Brubeck

For me, listening to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in particular, there's an emotional aspect - very different kinds of emotional aspects from those two composers,…

— Crispin Glover

Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies,…

— Slavoj Žižek

Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

— Chuck Berry