Classical Period Quotes

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was shown, but on the other side of bars; if present, it was at a distance, under the eyes of a reason that no longer felt any relation to it and that would not compromise itself by too close a resemblance. Madness had become a thing to look at: no longer a monster inside oneself, but an animal with strange mechanisms, a bestiality from which man had long since been suppressed.

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

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.

Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

I love Greek history. I love Roman history.

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.

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.