20th century Quote by Jon Gordon

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

“The orchestral music is glorious but I wish they'd stop playing for a minute: it's very hard to eavesdrop properly over a grand piano…

— Holly Smale

Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.

— Frederic Chopin

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 would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.

— Matt Groening

The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo…

— Thomas Powers

That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.

— Eugene Ormandy

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

— Leo Kottke

“At breakfast, I might pass a Brahms symphony in my head. Then I am called to the phone, and half an hour later I…

— Arthur Rubinstein

“composes them,” I say. “Get composing, Mozart. All I hear now is symphony in bitch minor,”

— Sarah Daltry

“Each day we draft a new movement in our symphony of life; what melody will you compose today?”

— Ken Poirot

“There I was, listening to four students play something that had been written in another time in another country and it seemed like nothing…

— Harry Cauley