Clear Quote by Alfred Schnittke

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

— Gustav Mahler

I have written six symphonies, they are smaller-scale works. I seem to emit my themes, work them out, combine and intertwine them, and then…

— Barbara Harbach

I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.

— Henry Mancini

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

— Danny Elfman

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's…

— Martin Fowler

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least,…

— George Gershwin

I love symphonies. I love string sections.

— Glen Campbell

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

— Alan Hovhaness

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

— Placido Domingo

I don't pretend to want to write the Great American Symphony.

— Henry Mancini

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

— Gustav Mahler