Composer Quote by Dmitri Shostakovich Download Open image “Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.” — Dmitri Shostakovich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer Despise Stravinsky Thinker Worship
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 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
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 loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets… — Joni Mitchell 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 you talk… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival. — Billy Cannon 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 Ravel. — Alexandre Desplat 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 Stravinsky! — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste." — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I don't know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel's Bolero. Too bad -… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery of the… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true! — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's… — Michael Brecker Copy Share Image
“- Mom, can I tell them there that I'm Romanian? - Sure, why not tell them? - I was thinking that they wouldn't think...… — George Enescu Copy Share Image
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to… — Ernest Gold Copy Share Image
I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer. — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should do it.… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
