Baroque Quote by Mahan Esfahani

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

— Gordon Getty

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.

— Spike Jonze

I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced…

— Brian Wilson

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is…

— Pierre Schaeffer

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual…

— Brian Wilson

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

— Chris Thile

In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and…

— Camille Henrot

I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing,…

— Wendy Carlos

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

— Yngwie Malmsteen

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians…

— Pierre Schaeffer

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