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)

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more,”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)