New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good,… — Barbara Cook Copy Share Image
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Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
“Listen up, mind maestro! It's time to fine-tune those thoughts, remix them if you need to, and hit that "delete" button on… — lifeispositive.com Copy Share Image
Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no… — Scott Aaronson 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
Symphonies can generate a tremendous amount of sounds, beauty, and emotion. That is part of their human feel and sweetness. Keyboards, on… — Yanni Copy Share Image
Existence cares. When I say God cares I mean that existence cares for you, it is not indifferent. Let this be the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I don't think I would ever write a book with what anybody could call pornography in it, because I feel that pornography… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
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Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every… — Joseph B. Wirthlin 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
Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
I'm familiar to people. They feel comfortable with me. I started in live television. I perform live all the time. I sing… — Florence Henderson Copy Share Image
Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony,… — Woody Allen 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
Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
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There are moments in a woman's life when her heart flips in her chest, when the world suddenly seems uncommonly pink and… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four,… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony.… — Henry Ward Beecher 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 never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
![“When a man, filled with a mixture of reverence and bewilderment, asks, “What on earth does this all mean?”, a child will answer him with the fourth movement [of his Fourth Symphony]: “This is the life of the Kingdom of Heaven.” quote by Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a8e/gustav-mahler-9935_aesthetics_when-a-man-filled-with-a-mixture-of-reve_997036.jpg)
![“[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.” quote by Nadia Boulanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b56/nadia-boulanger-17786_astonishment_on-being-asked-how-it-felt-to-be-the-fir_1585465.jpg)
![“I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.” quote by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0fc/pyotr-ilyich-tchaikovsky-23045_accomplish_i-have-put-my-whole-soul-into-this-work_148822.jpg)
