Actors Quote by Mads Mikkelsen

I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.

— Terry Bozzio

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

— Eugene Ormandy

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

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

— Charles Rosen

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 still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

— Dhani Harrison

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but…

— Jean-Luc Godard