Quotes About Renaissance Music

#1. I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the pagaentry of it remained with me. The aesthetic I really love. I think a lot of my sense of melody comes from singing those hymns and doing the renaissance music and stuff.

Jonathan Meiburg

#2. I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

Ritchie Blackmore

#3. Europe is not old; it's rotten. Most Europeans are ignorant, racist, greedy and lazy.

Daniel Marques

#4. I think old people like Hillary Clinton and I shouldn't try and be cool with social networks, you know; maybe she should leave that stuff up to Chelsea.

Stanley Druckenmiller

#5. The problem of pain is not a nail in the coffin of Christianity; it is a crowbar that jerks the lid off the coffin and allows all who are willing to climb out of their sleep.

Ted Dekker

#6. I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.

Norman Douglas

#7. I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.

Eric Clapton

#8. As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

Debbie Allen

#9. Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

Alexander Cockburn

#10. You call someplace paradise,
kiss it goodbye

Eagles

#11. You've no idea, the whole Army's obsessed with playing at soldiers ...

Tom Stoppard

#12. When you read Boethius and some of the Renaissance philosophers, they talk a lot about the other spheres. There's a music of the spheres. There's a music that's actually in the universe, they believed, that's out there in different dimensions.

Frederick Lenz

#13. For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.

Steven Price

#14. Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.

John Taliaferro

#15. Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Theodor Adorno

#16. It's clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper - deeper than gasoline lines of energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as President I need your help. So, I decided to reach out and listen to the voices of America.

Jimmy Carter

#17. Ferreting in one's soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed.

Leo Tolstoy

#18. If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.

Liezi

#19. I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word.' The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.

Erik Larson

#20. Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

Will Durant

#21. The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming
and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music.

Jonathan Cain

#22. A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.

Ben Lovett