Generations Quote by George Bernard Shaw

I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.

— Terry Bozzio

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

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

— Ernest Newman

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

— Dmitri Shostakovich

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

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

— Duke Ellington

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

“Outside Soviet Russia, and following the last symphonies of Mahler, Nielsen and Sibelius, an element of obsolescence has unmistakably attached itself to the genre.…

— Pauline Fairclough

There is a reactionary conservative side of classical music, which is not the most exciting side of it. The side that draws me in,…

— Bryce Dessner

“The trombone and side-drums in the chamber music of Stravinsky will do well enough in a very smart house-party where all the conversation is…

— Donald Francis Tovey

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

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