Facts Quote by Lukas Foss

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

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

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I started with very tonal 19th-century music because I wanted to be a violinist as a child. So this was my first music, and…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together,…

— Rick Owens

It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat…

— Mackenzie Astin

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets…

— Joni Mitchell

“Even Mozart, perhaps the most gifted composer in history, developed and grew in his art. The music he wrote in his thirties was far…

— Robert Fritz

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing…

— Jason Robert Brown

My greatest influence came from my parents' love of classical music. We listened to a lot of arias and operas growing up.

— Lara Fabian

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone