Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul. — Nelly Mazloum Copy Share Image
“The perfect orchestration of the symphony of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
I found a deep kinship between Mahler's recurrent attempts to confront all sides of life and to affirm himself in the face… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to… — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls.… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world.… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
My grandmother got me recordings of the 'Goldberg Variations,' in addition to the 'Brandenburg Concertos,' the Mozart string quartets and Beethoven's 'Seventh… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale,… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares… — Elie Faure Copy Share Image
If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready… — Walter Damrosch Copy Share Image
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
To have everything written for you It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited… — Buddy Rich Copy Share Image