Renaissance Music/middle Renaissance Music 1467-1534

Famous quotes containing the words renaissance, music and/or middle:

    “People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It’s a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it’s the togetherness of modern technology.”
    —J.G. (James Graham)

    “The manner in which Americans “consume” music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie—it’s consumed that way without any regard for how and why it’s made.”
    —Frank Zappa (1940–1994)

    “Now, in my middle age,
    about nineteen in the head I’d say,
    I am rowing, I am rowing....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)