Covered Quote by Carl Orff

Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and…

— Robert Genn

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

— Alan Price

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

— Aleksey Igudesman

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

— Leila Josefowicz

While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then…

— Bear McCreary

I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.

— Brian Molko

Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find…

— Julia Holter

There is so much restlessness and chaos in the society, and that's what music depicts.

— Liz Mitchell

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

— David Mitchell

Across generations, the torch-bearers of Carnatic music have mastered the art form of connection.

— Sid Sriram

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated…

— Robert Green Ingersoll