My grandmother got me recordings of the 'Goldberg Variations,' in addition to the 'Brandenburg Concertos,' the Mozart string quartets and Beethoven's 'Seventh… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions. — Masaru Emoto Copy Share Image
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Each piece I tell stands on its own, and then it all ties together. It segues from story to story, and then… — Ron Shock Copy Share Image
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. — David Del Tredici Copy Share Image
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
“Every wonderful quality "in" someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life's great symphony.” — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's… — Louis Kahn 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
Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth.… — Malcolm Arnold Copy Share Image
Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a… — Aldous Huxley 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
A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
And we would play together, like fine musicians should, And it would sound like music, and the music would sound good. But… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called 'the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river,… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those… — Bjork 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
My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,… — Brennan Manning 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
When I was five, I heard the end of Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony' with my mother, and I got goosebumps all over my… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one. — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR… — Brian Ferneyhough 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
It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“The lyrics gather in my soul, as the blooms burst in air, and what flows from my lips is a symphony long… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it. — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I get swept along just trying to keep up with that endlessly growing to-do list, but I do my… — Tohoru Masamune Copy Share Image
A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized. — John Barrymore Copy Share Image
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image