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
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
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss. — Georg Solti 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
What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I have had much pleasure in working with Orphei Drängar during my time as chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and… — Neeme Jarvi Copy Share Image
...As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. — Nicholas Meyer 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
“it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.” — mary anne radmacher Copy Share Image
With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people. — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on?… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play… — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity. — Dimitris Mitropoulos 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
My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either… — James Agee Copy Share Image
