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Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like. -- Joan Armatrading
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. -- Ernest Hemingway
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. -- Harry Seidler
You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument. -- Michala Petri
Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like. -- Haruki Murakami
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? -- Pierre Schaeffer
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. -- Juan Goytisolo
My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me. -- Antonia Thomas
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. -- Cecilia Bartoli
Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way. -- Jerry Lee Lewis
Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque. -- Frank Wedekind
I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre. -- Joyce DiDonato
The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. -- Kevin McCloud
My thesis statement would beâ??Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music. -- Chris Thile
My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist. -- Joe Bastianich
Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German. -- Victoria de los Angeles
Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a forest. -- Camille Henrot
To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity. -- Wade Davis
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building. -- Carlo Petrini
I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure. -- China Mieville
While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it. -- Win Butler
There's a particular style that is very Peru that you don't see anywhere else; it's got so many different imprints. When you mix Incan minimalism with the heavy, ornate Spanish Baroque, it is very interesting. -- Mario Testino
But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose. -- J. M. Ledgard
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. -- Ernest Hemingway
While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go. -- Emanuel Lasker
If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way. -- Robert Wilson
When I say that there's commonality, I mean more in terms of the sort of techniques by which we perceive Baroque and minimalist music rather than the techniques used to compose them. I know that's being sort of overly complicated. -- Mahan Esfahani
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. -- Mahan Esfahani
I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the great medieval, Mannerist, and Baroque painters of Italian, Spanish, Flemish, and German origin are a constant source of inspiration, along with select modernists like Dali. -- Anton Yelchin
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience. -- Roland Barthes
I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music. -- Elie Wiesel
I was trying to run something to ground that had come to my attention when I was working on the Baroque Cycle. That series, of course, was about the conflict between Newton and Leibniz. Leibniz developed a system of metaphysics called monadology, which looked pretty weird at the time and was promptly buried by Newtonian-style physics. -- Neal Stephenson
The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it. -- Andre Bazin
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. -- William Irwin Thompson
My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch. -- Iris Apfel
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. -- Jan Garbarek
Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces. -- Rufus Wainwright
For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style. -- Renee Fleming
I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage. -- Zadie Smith
I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion. -- Donna Leon
Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground. -- Rachel Zoe
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. -- Mario Batali
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old. -- Geraldine Brooks
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.' -- Jerry Saltz
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series. -- Jacqueline Carey
If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do much more to it. But Saint-Luc wrote very simple baroque music, and so if you do not embellish it, it just falls apart. It's way too simple. -- David Russell
The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea, then you have an answer to the idea in another voice, then you have a counter idea accompanying the original idea, and you build up your texture like that. I'm really into Kruder and Dorfmeister at the moment, and they do the same thing. -- Charles Hazlewood
I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out what the composer intended... You have music of the 17th century - it's all whole notes and half notes. But inside of that, there are so many things that one can do, at least according to what we know about performance practice. -- Caroline Shaw
Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque. -- Camille Henrot
I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music. -- Yngwie Malmsteen
I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist." -- Camille Henrot
My look is either very baroque or very Zen "? everything in between makes me itch. -- Iris Apfel
A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice. -- Mark Coleman
The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque. -- Marisa Silver
Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea. -- Arundhati Roy
The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has becomeâ??or else scrap it and get ready to start all over. -- Christopher Flavin
The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque. -- Philip K. Dick
I was attracted by the curve â?? the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches. -- Oscar Niemeyer
What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery and each reflects upon the other. -- Camille Henrot
Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste. -- Donald Knuth
In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and mythology. It was a way to inspire pre-Christian character. -- Camille Henrot
The Bedlam that greeted James Tilly Matthews, then, was not so much a baroque spectacle of depravity as an exhausted and run-down public institution, its building falling apart and its professional image tarnished. -- Mike Jay
I'm not a designer who is very interested in baroque or in fantasy or in the fantastic side of fashion. This exists and this is important, but I'm interested in the very real dimensions. -- Christophe Lemaire

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