Claudio Monteverdi quotes
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“The end of all good music is to affect the soul.”
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“Text first, rhythm second, melody third.”
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“The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.”
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“The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.”
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“The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.”
-- Claudio Monteverdi
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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“Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man”
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“I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down”
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“Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. ”
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Source : Alphonse Daudet, Ernest Daudet, Léon Daudet (1900). “The Works of Alphonse Daudet”
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“Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take...”
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