Romantic Era Quotes

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it.

'Downton Abbey'. I love all things olden-days, and I'm very interested in somebody brushing my hair out at the end of the night.

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

I was with Brian De Palma at the time, and he said he wrote the role specifically for me. I don't know what that says about the way he saw me, since the role was of a castrating killer. Brian came one morning to the house, said "Here's your Christmas present." He wrote the character to have a Swedish accent, but since I couldn't pull that off, he switched it to French-Canadian. It was such a romantic time in my life. Everyone was young and passionate and convinced they were going to change film forever.

The 'Mozart Symphony No. 27' is an early composition. I find it charming.

Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

I've got great joy from rediscovering Western music. I love Schumann and Chopin, and those amazing symphonies of Bruckner.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. But Sinatra created the best romantic era that we've ever had.

If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.

I wanted it to be kind of dreamy and 1920s, when everything is soft-focus.

Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds.

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.

I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

Under the banner of Romanticism, which broke down old laws in the arts, in philosophy, which called out for unlimited freedom of thought, we called for a political revolution.

Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.