Adolescence Quote by Philippe Aries

I simply love Wagner's music. That actually started very early. He was the first composer I was exposed very much to because my parents…

— Andris Nelsons

Any form of classical music is made for youth.

— Ilaiyaraaja

“Before the 20th century, there was no such thing as “teenagers.” There were children and adults, and the goal of the former was to…

— Joel Hilliker

Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be…

— Franz Grillparzer

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

— Slavoj Žižek

I started with very tonal 19th-century music because I wanted to be a violinist as a child. So this was my first music, and…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast…

— Helene Deutsch

It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the…

— Philippe Aries

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

— Zubin Mehta

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

— Faye Moskowitz

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb