Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.
I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.
For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.
Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion.
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and technology.
Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.
With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.
