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
It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came… — Bjork Copy Share Image
When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you… — Donny Hathaway Copy Share Image
“When a man, filled with a mixture of reverence and bewilderment, asks, “What on earth does this all mean?”, a child will… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for… — John Muir Copy Share Image
That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back… — Marita Bonner 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
There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be… — A. P. Herbert 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
The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die… — Carolyn Forche 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
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
All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station. — Thomas Beecham 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
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK. — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
