Geography is crucial for my work. I went to Antarctica and took a studio to several of the main ice fields to… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
“The sound of the airplanes is in the key of war. The thunder of the truck trains, the sputter of the motorcycles,… — Clair Kenamore 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
Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality,… — James Gray Copy Share Image
When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals… — John Milton Copy Share Image
taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
The Boston Symphony is one of the best orchestras in the world and has such a great tradition - which I want… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
On Mars, where the air is spare - a hundred times less dense than on Earth - someone could hear you scream.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the… — James Spader Copy Share Image
“None of the older Symphony members knew much about science, which was frankly maddening given how much time these people had had… — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
Antarctic symphony has a geometric relationship to the landscape. It's saying that this landscape and the minimal kind of, you know I'm… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
A corporation exists to provide jobs for the community. A corporation exists to make charitable donations to the symphony or the homeless… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Wine is a chemical symphony. and The Aesthetic differentiation of Chesapeake Bay oysters and Olympia oysters occurs only after we can really… — Maynard Amerine Copy Share Image
“And Esme remembered in a rush--the wolfsong, the haunting, lyrical spirals of it in the dawn quiet and the feeling of euphoria… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Life is a symphony composed by God, played by us with preludes, themes, movements, passages...and wrong notes, so many wrong notes. Heaven… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“Your darkness is a symphony Played in explosions of silence to a crowd that has fallen in love with noise If they… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
Revolution is only truly revolution if it is a continuous struggle-not just an external struggle against an enemy, but an inner struggle,… — Sukarno Copy Share Image
“Pain is a symphony - a complex response that includes not just a distinct sensation but also motor activity, a change in… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
I never shied away from a challenge and I love doing big, epic films. They're interesting to me just on a pure… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
“The symphony had its origin not in instrumental forms like the concerto grosso, as one might have expected, but in the overture… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I… — Martin Fowler Copy Share Image
I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt… — Max Lucado 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
Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“Her graphite pencil scratches the thick paper and it is the soundtrack to my bliss. That, and her sound - dissonant, aching.… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a… — Julie Harris Copy Share Image
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
