Baroque Period Quotes

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.

Mozart is my first strength.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

The 'Mozart Symphony No. 27' is an early composition. I find it charming.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

If we got into a time machine and went back to the 1700s, classical and baroque music would have been the equivalent of Beyonce and Jay-Z.

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

I'll never forget the first time I heard Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Partita in E Major' for violin. It was in a late-1980s television commercial, of all things. As a young violinist at the time, it enchanted me - it was so pure, precise, and unadorned.

Western music is Bach, Handel and Schubert. It's good music, cleverly done. As a musician, I can see that.

I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach.

My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.

I think that Bach has a very nice sound on the lute. But I find that what I want to do with Bach is best revealed on the guitar.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.

I used to love Bach.