Top 13 Monteverdi's Quotes
#1. I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid passion. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment sound great in the Albert Hall, and the Glyndebourne cast is fabulous.
Charles Hazlewood
#2. The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.
Claudio Monteverdi
#3. We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
Cecilia Bartoli
#4. You're so lovely when you laugh. So lovely it breaks my heart, he said.
Charlotte Stein
#6. It's hard not to be impressed by my older relatives.
Gia Coppola
#8. It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'
Lily James
#9. Do you believe in an afterlife? Do your personal beliefs include a life after death? - no matter how they phrase their snotty test, do the following. Simply look them in the eye, snort derisively, and retort, Frankly, only a provincial ignoramus would even believe in death.
Chuck Palahniuk
#10. Yoga is a dance within ... and then something inside you grows so big, it spills out like champagne, that's when you dance on the outside.
Tao Porchon-Lynch
#11. Prayer! I couldn't live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him.
Dale Evans
#13. 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.
Cecilia Bartoli
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