Quotes About Baroque Music

#1. I think in Baroque music, especially in the case of Bach, what really transformed Bach's musical language, what changed it for him was hearing Vivaldi, hearing the sort of manipulation of small cells of information and patterns in order to generate sort of huge blocks of harmony.

Mahan Esfahani

#2. I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.

Elie Wiesel

#3. If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do much more to it. But Saint-Luc wrote very simple baroque music, and so if you do not embellish it, it just falls apart. It's way too simple.

David Russell

#4. My thesis statement would be - Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

Chris Thile

#5. Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

Joan Armatrading

#6. My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

Antonia Thomas

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

Joyce DiDonato

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

Yngwie Malmsteen

#9. Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.

Haruki Murakami

#10. Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

Jan Garbarek

#11. 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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Joan Rivers

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Mathew N. Schmalz

#14. Others, tiring of the sound of Buxtehude and Bach for hours on end, would complain there was no tune. That was exactly the thing he liked best about a fugue, the fact that it could not be sung. A fugue was not singular, as a melody was, but plural. It was a conversation.

Kate Grenville

#15. When I say that there's commonality, I mean more in terms of the sort of techniques by which we perceive Baroque and minimalist music rather than the techniques used to compose them. I know that's being sort of overly complicated.

Mahan Esfahani

#16. Philosophy's true use - "An operating system for life's difficulties and hardships".

Ryan Holiday

#17. I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.

Donna Leon

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Elizabeth Strout

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Peter Hook

#20. Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

Pierre Schaeffer