93 Quotes About Classical-music
- Author Michael P. Naughton
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History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.
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- Author Tom Althouse
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We are the conductors of the beauty of the orchestra of our inner lives. Keep a Händel on it and don't hold Bach!
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- Author B.V. Lawson
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Injustice, large and small, was like sour, moldy bread. Consumed often enough, it brought on hunger for the meat of revenge.
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- Author Ignaz Schnitzer
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Whatever comes, I'll take the good--and send the rest to hell.
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- Author Kate Walbert
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In the background, classical music plays from a paint-splattered radio, the New York station with the ancient announcer more frequently heard in doctors’ waiting rooms and other places where signs prohibit the use of cell phones – the last bastions of Beethoven or Chopin or, on racier days, Shostakovich.
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- Author E.A. Bucchianeri
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Having considered Handel's tumultuous opera career and his first term at Covent Garden in the 1730s, perhaps we may dare to suggest he was one of the foremost pioneers in establishing autonomy within the traditional system of music patronage, notwithstanding his efforts to become an independent impressario often proved disappointing.
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- Author B.V. Lawson
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Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.
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- Author B.V. Lawson
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He wore his personality like a suit that was too tight.
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- Author Valentina Gomaz
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Regardless of the age of the people in the audience, they are clapping, screaming with joy and enjoying each and every note. I used to think classical music was boring. But that was because I never really gave it a chance. When I first saw 2CELLOS' cover of Smooth Criminal, I was mesmerized by their talent and instantly intrigued. With just two instruments, they created a sound so powerful and incredible, a sound I had never known could come from a cello.
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