Geese Quote by Gyorgy Ligeti

When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems.…

— Grace Paley

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

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

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

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

— Leo Kottke

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

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

— Dmitri Shostakovich

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a…

— Andris Nelsons

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— James Newton Howard

My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

— Sergei Prokofiev