Claudio Monteverdi famous quotes

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
-- Claudio Monteverdi

#Soul #Ends #Music Is

Text first, rhythm second, melody third.
-- Claudio Monteverdi

#Musical #Firsts #Rhythm

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
-- Claudio Monteverdi

#Foundation #Modern #Composer

The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.
-- Claudio Monteverdi

#Honor #Mind #World

The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.
-- Claudio Monteverdi

#Modern #Composer #Bases

A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.

We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down

Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. 

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Music is another planet.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take...