Instrument Quote by Simon Rattle

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

I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

— Joyce DiDonato

I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

— Joyce DiDonato

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

I like baroque things.

— Weyes Blood

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

— Chris Thile

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

— Michala Petri

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

— Steve Lacy

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

Our intention is to develop more subtlety in contemporary electronic sounds. We don't like nostalgic projects. We have disparate interests and many philosophical concerns.…

— Thomas Koner

I am compared to other classical musicians, but most of them perform songs from other people, and most of those composers belong to another…

— Ludovico Einaudi

If it ain't baroque, don't fax it.

— Denis Norden