20th century Quote by Penn Jillette

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

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes you on a journey from Gregorian chant right through to the modernism…

— John Tavener

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.

— Terry Bozzio

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

— Ernest Newman

If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.

— Gail Zappa

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

— Dmitri Shostakovich

If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.

— Joss Stone

I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it is not…

— Arthur Rubinstein

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

— Eugene Ormandy

[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the Rite of…

— Jon Gordon