Debussy Quote by Ernest Newman Download Open image “I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.” — Ernest Newman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Debussy Ideas No idea Stravinsky
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise. — Dmitri Shostakovich 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
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
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary. — Claude Debussy 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
The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it. — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
I am a classical fan. I like Debussy a lot, so I was trying to learn it on the piano. I've learned like a… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
You may help a lame dog over a stile but he is still a lame dog on the other side. — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out. — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period - with… — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of… — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period, with the possible exception of… — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart… — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting… — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase… — Joaquin Rodrigo Copy Share Image
The score of Pelleas and Melisande by Debussy, heralds that which will lift man from the earthly to the celestial, from the mortal to… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
“When Debussy was seeming to get nowhere with an opera he was composing, he put it this way: "I spent my days pursuing the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please" and he… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical… — Gary Lucas Copy Share Image
I am a classical fan. I like Debussy a lot, so I was trying to learn it on the piano. I've learned like a… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. — Toru Takemitsu Copy Share Image
Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
