Quotes About Classical

There's only one woman I know of who could never be a symphony conductor, and that's the Venus de Milo.

Theories abound about how progressive rock is intrinsically British, whereas in America few bands of this ilk emerged from the late 1960s into the 1970s. One accepted theory is that Europe is the birthplace of classical music, whereas in America, it is the nation's rich blues-based tradition that informs rock history. That supports the theory that 400 years of classical music is in the blood over there

It is also clear that the original performances, in public celebrations of all kinds, from religious festivals to the 'after-party' of triumphs, were unruly, raucous occasions, attracting a wide cross section of the population of the city, including women and slaves. This is in sharp contrast to classical Athens, where the theatre audience, though larger than at Rome, was probably restricted to male citizens, unruly or not.

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The modern idea that the female nude implies the existence of a predatory male gaze was not first thought up, as is often imagined, in the feminism of the 1960s. As Part One will explain, what is believed to be the very first life-sized statue of a female nude in classical Greece – a fourth-century BCE image of the goddess Aphrodite – provoked exactly the same kind of debate.

There is no earlier period in the history of the West that it is possible to get to know quite so well or so intimately (we have nothing like such rich and varied evidence from classical Athens). It is not for more than a millennium, in the world of Renaissance Florence, that we find any

The implications, however, were again revolutionary. In extending citizenship to people who had no direct territorial connections with the city of Rome, they broke the link, which most people in the classical world took for granted, between citizenship and a single city. In a systematic way that was then unparalleled, they made it possible not just to become Roman but also to be a citizen of two places at once:

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Where classical and medieval rhetorical pragmatism diverges from modern, I think, is in assigning a crucial role to a notion of common memory, accessed by an individual through education, which acts to "complete" uninformed individual experience.

Freudians argue that the psychological structure is the cause of civilization. Malinowski replaces a psychological causality with a sociological causality and takes the Oedipus complex as a product of civilization. But it is evident that the one thesis and the other are both inseparable and contradictory. We must construct a psychoanalysis and a sociology...which overtakes and synthesizes classical givens.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.

Could she have known that it was her own image that, Waldo wrote, "rose before me at times into heroical & godlike regions, and I could remember no superior women"? Indeed, to Waldo, who had once unkindly disrupted her Conversations on classical myth, Margaret was best compared to "Ceres, Minerva, Proserpine, and the august ideal forms of the Foreworld." He had not told her this, but perhaps somehow she knew.

One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.

You wouldn't know an Ionic entablature if it bit you on your portico.

The Classical civilisation, which Greece originated, is the only civilisation which is spread out before us, from beginning to end.

John Stuart Mill was called a Ricardian socialist because classical economists were moving toward reforms they themselves characterized as social – and hence, as socialist. Most reformers referred to themselves as socialists of one kind or another, from Christian socialists to Marxist socialists and reformers across the political spectrum. The question was what kind of socialism "free market" capitalism would evolve into.

The foundation myth of pro-rentier economics is that everyone receives income in proportion to the contribution they make to production. This denies that economic rent is unearned. Hence, there is no exploitation or unearned income, and no need for the reforms advocated by classical political economy.

Today's monopolization of affluence by a rentier class avoiding taxes and public regulation by buying control of government is the same problem that confronted the classical economists. Their struggle to create a fairer economy produced the tools most appropriate to understand how today's economies are polarizing while becoming less productive.

East thus avoided the economic polarization between creditors and debtors that ended up imposing bondage on most of classical antiquity.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

Watching a performance of warriors, I was told, "This fighter's tradition is six hundred years old." And I saw a performance so mired in ritual— As if nothing valid had happened in six hundred years. We must honor the classical without being irrelevant.