Symphony Quotes

“To make of cacophony , symphony.”

— N.K. Jemisin

No one can whistle a symphony.

— Halford Luccock

A symphony is no joke.

— Johannes Brahms

A girl I could write you a symphony.

— Iyaz

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

— Bernard Williams

I don't pretend to want to write the Great American Symphony.

— Henry Mancini

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

— Glen Campbell

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

— Alan Hovhaness

“Oh, well - he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.

— Deepak Chopra

My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'

— Walker Hayes

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

— Jane Byrne

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

— Walter Benjamin

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

— Colin Wilson

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double…

— David W. Wolfe

“the clatter of pots and pans and dishes. To others it was a cacophony. To Anton it was a symphony.”

— Louise Penny

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

— Sarah Caldwell

We must realize our own talents and, having realized, accept them; and play on them like a symphony in which all other…

— Jeane Dixon

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

— Nelly Mazloum

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

— Bill Dedman

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that…

— Joyce Cary

I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands…

— Arthur Godfrey

Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death.…

— Jon Krakauer

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that…

— Zoltan Kodaly

Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is…

— Anonymous

Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or…

— Alan Watts

“At breakfast, I might pass a Brahms symphony in my head. Then I am called to the phone, and half an hour…

— Arthur Rubinstein

“My soul is like a hidden orchestra; I do not know which instruments grind and play away inside of me, strings and…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing;…

— Victor Hugo

But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it,…

— Evelyn Underhill

Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world.…

— Elizabeth Goudge

Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music…

— Billy Taylor

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable,…

— William Ellery Channing

“All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldn’t see it, then one day, Prayer…

— Geoffrey Wood

I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the…

— Slavoj Žižek

That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back…

— Marita Bonner

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

— Gustav Mahler

You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.

— Andre Previn

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

— David Amram

Human atoms are the notes, their life the symphony.

— Kyle Hill