Quote by Aaron Copland

On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling them and…

— DJ Spooky

“We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra.”

— Kane Freeman

I love symphonies. I love string sections.

— Glen Campbell

There is no piece of guitar music that has the formal beauty of a piano sonata by Mozart, or the richly worked out ideas…

— Julian Bream

Every orchestra has its own sound.

— Simon Rattle

“You are not a note in a symphony; you are the entire symphony in a note.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

— Colin Wilson

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood…

— Kathleen Valentine

“Sonata,” he says, “means ‘sounding together.’ It is an argument in which one theme is presented in opposition to another and they struggle until…

— Eula Biss

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

— Gustav Mahler

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

— David Del Tredici

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

— Neville Marriner