Quotes of: Stravinsky Keyword

Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.

Charles Hazlewood

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

Eugene Ormandy

If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.

Eugene Ormandy

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

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

Casey Nicholaw

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

Charles Rosen

I feel that you always pay when you are a child.

Itzhak Perlman

I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.

Erich Leinsdorf

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high.

Graeme Murphy

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

Neville Marriner

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

Sarah Caldwell

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

Charles Hazlewood

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

Charles Hazlewood

Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.

Chuck Mangione

Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry.

Kyle Abraham

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

Neville Marriner

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

Wayne McGregor

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

Zubin Mehta

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

Zubin Mehta

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

Alvin Ailey