Opera

🇬🇧Freddie Mercury

Music

1946–1991

"Listen, if you guys wanna move around and shift your asses a little, it's okay. It's okay by us, right? You can take all your clothes off if you like too, doesn't matter... Fuck off!"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music

Classical period

1756–1791

"Lengthy immersion in the works of other composers can tire. The music of Mozart does not tire, and this is one of its miracles."

Dmitri Shostakovich

Music

1906–1975

"What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in "serious" music."

🇬🇧Roger Scruton

Literature

conservatism

1944–2020

"The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge."

🇦🇷Daniel Barenboim

Music

b. 1942

"To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations."

🇩🇪Robert Schumann

Music

1810–1856

"To send light into the depths of the human heart -- this is the artist's calling!"

🇮🇹Paolo Petrocelli

Music

b. 1984

"When music speaks, everybody understands."

🇺🇸Scott Joplin

Music

1868–1917

"Good times coming. Good times have come."

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Music

Baroque music

1683–1784

"In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f* ."

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music

Classical period

1770–1827

"There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a tradesman."

🇺🇸Jessye Norman

Music

1945–2019

"Herbert von Karajan always rolled out a magic carpet for us, the singers. With him, our musical work took on another dimension."

🇬🇧Cyril Scott

Literature

1879–1970

"And this superconsciousness of necessity embraces a continual sensation of unconditional bliss and unconditional Love, conjoined with which is a supreme wisdom and power."

Joseph Haydn

Music

Classicism

1732–1809

"Give Him thanks, all ye His works so wondrous! Sing His honor, sing His glory, bless and magnify His Name! Jehovah’s praise endures forevermore, Amen, Amen!."

🇩🇪Richard Wagner

Music

1813–1883

"The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression has been made the end, while the End of expression has been made a means."