Classical Era Quotes

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe" tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring.

I love stuff like Mozart.

If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.

Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.

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

First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.

Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.