I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. — David Amram Copy Share Image
The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world. — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
“Oh, well - he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra. — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss. — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
“Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough… — Carson McCullers 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
Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and… — Joan Jett 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
“...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
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
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
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
“The earth, water and light, fruits and flowers, to her were not merely physical phenomena to be turned to use and then… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Because life is a symphony it must have its C Minor. Days there be when we hear only a discord of sharps… — W. Waldemar W. Argow Copy Share Image
Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound… — Bob Simon Copy Share Image
Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That He can cleanse us in such a way that… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini… — James Keller Copy Share Image
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image