Harmony Quote by Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

— George Bernard Shaw

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

I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.

— Terry Bozzio

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.

— Ernest Newman

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's…

— Frederic Chopin

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned…

— Lukas Foss

Many people who don't like Rachmaninov's style consider the 'Rhapsody' his masterpiece. It's written fantastically well for orchestra and piano. He combines a lot…

— Stephen Hough

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

— Leonard Bernstein

'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes you on a journey from Gregorian chant right through to the modernism…

— John Tavener