Aristocracy Quote by Mahan Esfahani

The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today in some…

— Mahan Esfahani

Well, harpsichord is kind of a big guitar, isn't it? I mean, it is plucked, after all.

— Mahan Esfahani

I mean to me, the harpsichord has a huge dynamic range. And I always say to people, come and listen to it. You know,…

— Mahan Esfahani

Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.

— Eddie Condon

I don't use the harpsichord because it evokes a past time period: I use it because I like the sound.

— Julia Holter

As long as there's a place for sundials and gardening and beautiful things, there's a place for the harpsichord. I completely reject the idea…

— Mahan Esfahani

I think I was drawn to the harpsichord because of the similarity of touch between the harpsichord and the tracker organ. When you press…

— Barbara Harbach

One of the tracks that I have is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - by the way, that's Bach's second son - Emanuel Bach's variations…

— Mahan Esfahani

The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no…

— David Ogden Stiers

You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.

— Michala Petri

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.

— Peter Shaffer

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated…

— Gary Hamel