Quotes About Monteverdi

#1. He worked up a pace that was uneven and unrelenting and to frenzied to call rhythmic.

Laurelin Paige

#2. 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

#3. The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

Ernest Bevin

#4. 'Never look back' is my philosophy.

Helen Clark

#5. Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest.

Mason Cooley

#6. I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.

Charlotte Bronte

#7. I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

Mandy Patinkin

#8. The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.

Claudio Monteverdi

#9. We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

Cecilia Bartoli

#10. The world worked because people agreed to believe it worked.

Marcus Sakey

#11. The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#12. The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

Claudio Monteverdi

#13. He'd never forgotten the sweep of her soft mouth against his, the taste of her sweetness, like strawberries, and the way she fired his insides to life.

Katherine McIntyre

#14. The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

Claudio Monteverdi

#15. Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.

Earl Wilson

#16. In other words, Cantor is able to show that real numbers themselves can serve as the limits of fundamental sequences of reals, meaning his system of definitions is self-enclosed and VIR-proof.

David Foster Wallace

#17. 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