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“We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.”

People Seems Periods Taste Musical Flash Musical Taste

Author:K. D. Lang

“Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.”

Long Doe Views Style Fine Periods Musical Obvious Point Of View Delicate Eloquence Allusion Cadence Declamation

Book:The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield

“I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.”

Years Periods Exciting Musical Opera Principal Orchestra Horns Great Music Metropolitan Year One

Author:Gunther Schuller

“Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to 1900 for arousing and channeling desire.”

Mean Desire Process Periods Expectations Musical Fulfillment Principal Channeling Climax Withholding

Book:Reading Music: Selected Essays

Source: Reading Music: Selected Essays

“Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.”

Writing Remember Lines Greater Style Periods Judgment Weight Harmony Musical Proof Scripture Prose Melody Verses

Book:Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

“My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons... It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.”

Want Years Wanted Mother Four Periods Lessons My Family Musical Piano Four Years Playing Music Piano Lesson

Author:John Legend

“I wanted to make a more Romanesque film that told a story over a long period of time - this one spans 45 years. I had a great desire to make another musical, but this time I wanted to be more ambitious.”

Years Long Stories Wanted Film Desire Periods Musical Ambitious Long Periods Of Time

Author:Christophe Honore

“We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical is not - the reference is wrong, because classical on one hand refers to one period in musical history, which is Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, which is a fine period in musical history, but it was a while ago.On the other hand, it sort of alludes to some kind of "class," which A, is not true; B, is kind of detrimental to the whole idea. Because the point is that this music is available and it's actually relatively reasonably priced.”

Kind Ideas Whole Hands Class Building Fine Periods Music Is Built Instruments Musical Available Traditional Halls Concerts Detrimental Being Played

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. . . . All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written”

Today Three Sound Interest Alive Written Modern Century Students Periods Music Is Musical Yesterday Significant Significance Old Fashioned Ageless Old Music Bad Music

Author:Peter Warlock

“I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.”

Periods Right Now Musical Discovering Eighty Great Music Bland Discovering Things

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after.”

Careers Periods Musical Breakthrough Departure

Author:Questlove