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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

“I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. Thus, all success depending on an ear, And thinking I might purchase it too dear, If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, And truth cut short to make a period round, I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris-dance of verse.”

Source: Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]

“[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.”

Effort Century Periods Taste Concepts Defined Nineteenth Century Good Taste

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.”

Doe Sometimes America Periods Taste Tolerance Intolerance Persecution Euphemism

Author:Robert Hughes

“We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters events that go beyond the wildest dream of satire- if satire existed in America anymore; perhaps the reason for its weakness is that reality has superseded it.”

Ifs Doe Sometimes Reason Dream Reality America Events Internet Periods Taste Weakness Satire Intolerance Free Speech Euphemism Conjunctions Wildest Dreams

Author:Robert Hughes