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“I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.”

School Remember Emotion Listening High School Winter Overwhelmed Vivaldi

Author:Sara Zarr

“Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.”

Struggle Genius Survival Stress Vans Vivaldi

Author:Billy Cannon

“I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally putting in music or literally putting in a musical instrument, I use only a hint of the instrument, but the brocaded pattern is like a line of Bach because of its order and the leaves going up are like passages from Vivaldi, and the emphasis on drapery is where the sound comes.”

Thinking Use Order Sound Lines Degrees Instruments Paint Musical Patterns Theme Passages Emphasis Hints Musical Instruments Vivaldi

Author:Nelson Shanks

“What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where 'the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere'? The mythologies of the occult seem like baroque music: there is an overall similar quality of sound and movement, but, upon examination, each piece of music is unique; Vivaldi and Scarlatti are similar and different.”

Different Seems Sound Levels Consciousness Quality Pieces Movement Higher Music Is Unique Unity Mythology Examination Occult Higher Level Baroque Baroque Music Vivaldi

Book:At the Edge of History

Source: At the Edge of History

“I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.”

“For me, even my break time I like to pull out the bow and just go over a Vivaldi sonata and keep my head sharp, keep everything sharp.”

Break Bows Sonatas Vivaldi

Author:Chris Wyse

“I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.”

Beautiful Stuff Cry Emotional Grew Scene Grew Up Dancer Ballet Classical Music Ballet Dancer Sonatas Ballet Class Vivaldi

Author:Diane Kruger

“Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.”

Writing Vivaldi

Author:Igor Stravinsky

“I think in Baroque music, especially in the case of Bach, what really transformed Bach's musical language, what changed it for him was hearing Vivaldi, hearing the sort of manipulation of small cells of information and patterns in order to generate sort of huge blocks of harmony.”

Thinking Order Language Cases Information Changed Huge Harmony Musical Patterns Hearing Block Cells Manipulation Transformed Baroque Baroque Music Vivaldi

Author:Mahan Esfahani

“It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off.”

Perfect Music Radio Damn Desperate Pillow Covering Alarms Abraham Lively Tempo Start The Day Damn Things Upbeat Vivaldi

Book:The Ghost of Hannah Mendes

Source: The Ghost of Hannah Mendes

“Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was probably the most influential guy ever on me ... Vivaldi, Beethoven and eventually Paganini ... all of a sudden I was thinking in all these other areas, instead of blues riffs.”

Thinking Way Guy My Own Music Influence Huge Areas Influential Vivaldi Paganini

Author:Yngwie Malmsteen

“I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.”

Thinking Stills Important Century Fantastic Composer 18th Century Handel Vivaldi

Author:Cecilia Bartoli

“These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or lovely and think to myself: 'If Papa Haydn or Wolfgang Amadeus or the red-headed Vivaldi were here with a camera, they'd snap a picture of what's in front of me.' So I take the picture for them.”

Ifs Thinking Influence Fronts Red Exciting Cameras Photographer Creator Lovely These Days Visuals Composer Snaps Papa Vivaldi Amadeus

Author:Ralph Steiner