A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless. — Alfred Schnittke Copy Share Image
“Belief conducts the symphony of our thoughts. While moments dance to that symphony. Want better moments? Choose to be a better conductor.” — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Each day we draft a new movement in our symphony of life; what melody will you compose today?” — Ken Poirot Copy Share Image
It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
To be part of Kevin's [Drew] world, "Who Came First" is just kind of a magical symphony. If you're asking me what… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
God is able to cause all things people do to us, even the bad things, to work together for our good (Rom.… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
“...To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly ... to listen to stars and buds, to babes and sages, with open… — William Henry Channing Copy Share Image
The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs,… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“The cover was pebbled black leather, the pages onionskin, and he opened it carefully. It was his first Bible, the one his… — Charles Grant 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 point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
“So even that doesn’t make you happy? What about your Seventh Symphony? At least it rallied people. Once you told me how… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I found a deep kinship between Mahler's recurrent attempts to confront all sides of life and to affirm himself in the face… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“In the symphonic world, musically inclined industrialists and financiers were having problems of a different sort with the New York Philharmonic. The… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical. — William Wyler Copy Share Image
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business… — Paul McCreesh Copy Share Image
Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony — Lucy 'Aisy Copy Share Image
Life is the symphony you make it. It can be simple and little or grand and worth listening and seeing again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write… — David Ives Copy Share Image
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony. — Nicholas Sparks 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
It's a wonderful thing to play with symphony orchestras - I've played with many - but it's really special in Israel because… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
Success means to wake up, grow up, and show up, living your unique self, giving your unique gifts to the larger evolutionary… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated;… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
I learned all about big band arrangement and symphony arrangement and writing for strings. — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
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