Luciano Berio famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.
-- Luciano Berio

#Hands #People #Darkness
Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.
-- Luciano Berio

#Music #Listening #Intention
In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.
-- Luciano Berio

#Forever #Get Better #Evolve
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
-- Luciano Berio

#Spiritual #Ears #Demand

I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.
The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

Luciano Berio famous quotes

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