Symphony Quotes · Page 12

Each piece I tell stands on its own, and then it all ties together. It segues from story to story, and then…

— Ron Shock

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

— Sarah Caldwell

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing.…

— Guy Clark

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

What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our…

— George Eliot

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

— John Barrymore

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just…

— Benjamin Zander

A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Wine is a chemical symphony. and The Aesthetic differentiation of Chesapeake Bay oysters and Olympia oysters occurs only after we can really…

— Maynard Amerine

When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a…

— L'Wren Scott

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

— Olivia Newton-John

'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the biggest hip-hop records of all time once you actually analyse it.

— Richard Ashcroft

Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.

— Jonathan Tropper

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated;…

— George Gershwin

[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those…

— Bjork

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a…

— Julie Harris

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

— William Mapother

Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always…

— Jim Woodring

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

I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony.

— Simon Rattle

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

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

— Stanley Kubrick

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

— Colin Wilson

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

— Henry Mancini