Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get… — Teddy Wilson Copy Share Image
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, 'Forty-seven years… — Louise Andrews Kent Copy Share Image
Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale,… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen… — Vincent Kartheiser Copy Share Image
“The earth, water and light, fruits and flowers, to her were not merely physical phenomena to be turned to use and then… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please"… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude.… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at… — Daphne Oram 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
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
But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
We can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra. — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and… — Hunter S. Thompson 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
“Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
“You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
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 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
The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put… — Joe Goddard Copy Share Image
If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
