“I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!” PainSoundAttentionMusicStreetsEndlessSatItalianOperaSheerAnguishTormentObligedCrowdedSolaceBarrenInexplicableCrowded Streets Book:The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb
“[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.” LongMatterAgeCausesSoundNumbersPoetFitTragedyFaultsNotesMusicalDelightInventionPrimeItalianQuantityVersesRejectedRhymeWretchedAvoidedMeterLameSyllablesOratory Author:John Milton
“The English language is direct, unapologetic, and wonderfully amoral. Italian has a beautiful sound, but you cannot help but feel that you are always dealing with ghosts from the past and the looming dark presence of the Vatican.” FeelsHelpingPastBeautifulLanguageSoundDarkDirectGhostItalianEnglish LanguageLoomingUnapologetic Author:Chiara Barzini
“Most movies shot in Italian don't even bother to record the sound. In fact, sometimes when Fellini works, he doesn't even know what the dialogue is going to be, and he simply has his characters count from 1 to 10, knowing he will loop in their dialogue later.” KnowsSometimesCharacterFactsSoundKnowingRecordsShotsDialogueBotherItalianLoops Author:Sean Connery