Baroque Quotes

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.