It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I am lucky to have the greatest band and when you add a symphony orchestra to the mix it brings all of… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I… — Summer Glau Copy Share Image
We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Perfection: a collection of a variety of pieces that, when viewed and felt individually, are difficult and confusing; but when brought together… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the… — Amar Bose Copy Share Image
Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. — David Del Tredici Copy Share Image
