Stravinsky Quote by Terry Bozzio

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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 had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.

— Ernest Newman

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

— Dmitri Shostakovich

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

— Duke Ellington

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

— Charles Rosen

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

— Eugene Ormandy

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 am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before…

— Rufus Wainwright

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

— Neil Young