Baroque/music

Famous quotes containing the words baroque and/or music:

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

“Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you—like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist—or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)