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
If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
Geography is crucial for my work. I went to Antarctica and took a studio to several of the main ice fields to… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. — Charles Angoff 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
“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
Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business.… — Ken Burns 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
Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. — Edward Abbey 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
It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Regular church-goers are substantially more likely than non-attenders to read, to take newspapers and magazines, to listen to classical music, to attend… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral. — Fernand Point Copy Share Image
I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt… — Max Lucado 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
When I was just coming up, I always wanted to be able to perform to a large crowd with a symphony. — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
