148 Quotes About Classical



  • Author Doug Bradley
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    I found a brief piece of by Antonio Vivaldi around this time which became my ‘Pinhead Mood Music’. Called Al Santo Sepolcro (At The Holy Sepulchre), it opens more like a piece of modern orchestral music, and although it it moves toward Vivaldi’s familiar harmonies, there is always the threat that it will fall back into dissonance. The piece progresses in an exquisite agony, poised on a knife edge between beauty and disfigurement, joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain. Perfect.

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  • Author Giacomo Puccini
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    Chi il bel sogno di Dorettapotè indovinar?Il suo mister come maicome mai finiAhimè! un giorno uno studentein bocca la baciòe fu quel baciorivelazione:fu la passione!Folle amore!Folle ebbrezza!Chi la sottil carezzad'un bacio così ardentemai ridir potrà?Ah! mio sogno!Ah! mia vita!Che importa la ricchezzase alfine è rifioritala felicità!O sogno d'orpoter amar così!

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  • Author يوسف السباعي
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    ويهتف بى صوت يسرى مع الرياح: "ألم يندمل القرح؟" فأقول: "بل زاد نكأه" فيقول: "ألا يعزيك عن الراحل شئ؟" فأقول: "إن العزاء لا يتطاول إليه" ويقول: "أتضيع عمرك وراء أمل خاب؟" فأقول: "لست أول من أضاعه" فيقول: "أتعشق الرميم؟" فأقول: "والرماد والهشيم" فيقول: "تكاد تجن به؟" فأقول: "وأوشك أعبده

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  • Author Doris Mortman
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    Beethoven introduced us to anger. Haydn taught us capriciousness, Rachmaninoff melancholy. Wagner was demonic. Bach was pious. Schumann was mad, and because his genius was able to record his fight for sanity, we heard what isolation and the edge of lunacy sounded like. Liszt was lusty and vigorous and insisted that we confront his overwhelming sexuality as well as our own. Chopin was a poet, and without him we never would have understood what night was, what perfume was, what romance was.

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