Quotes of: Stravinsky Keyword

People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.

Natalia Makarova

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

Neville Marriner

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

Neville Marriner

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

Neville Marriner

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Riccardo Muti

I don't want to bother them and ruin the party they are preparing so carefully at La Scala.

Riccardo Muti

I started dancing in my room... I wanted to find out more about my movements. I wanted to elaborate on whatever it was that I was doing there.

Kyle Abraham

I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.

Leonard Slatkin

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

Leonard Slatkin

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Thomas Beecham

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers.

Siobhan Davies

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

Eugene Ormandy

With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.

Eugene Ormandy

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

Chuck Mangione

I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a dancing Indian.

Casey Nicholaw

Politicians and others are stuck in a horrible world where being emotional in any way counts as being unbalanced, and unable to think clearly. For me, emotions are thought.

Hofesh Shechter

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

Itzhak Perlman

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

Erich Leinsdorf

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.

Charles Hazlewood

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

Siobhan Davies

There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

Zubin Mehta