The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
I think my first impression (of Bix Beiderbecke) was the lasting one. I remember very clearly thinking, 'Where, what planet, did this… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony. — Benedetta Tagliabue 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
I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or… — Alan Watts 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
The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit. — Hildegard of Bingen 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
Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to… — Pete Seeger 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 I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to… — Erich Leinsdorf Copy Share Image
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many… — Robert Fripp 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
How full and rich a world Theirs to inhabit is-- Sweet scent of grass and bloom, Playmates' glad symphony, Cool touch of… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the… — James Spader Copy Share Image
To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony. — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark… — Carson McCullers 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
