Best Symphonies Quotes

46 Symphonies quotes by 46 unique authors

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it… — George Gershwin
The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet… — Victor Hugo
I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony… — Isaac Asimov
Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to… — David Letterman
Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings. — John Boyle O'Reilly
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with… — Robert Schumann
This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies. — Tina Turner
I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some… — Colm Toibin
But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our… — Robert Ardrey
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the… — Viktor E. Frankl
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the… — Henry Miller
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people… — Jon Krakauer
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the… — John Jay Chapman
I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I… — Zubin Mehta
There was a period after my first solo album came out that about 50 per cent of my work was with symphonies and big bands.… — Toni Tennille
If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music. — Christo
I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up… — Idina Menzel
In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we eventually learn that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished. — Karl Rahner
Every time that you get undressed I hear symphonies in my head I wrote this song just looking at you oh, oh Yeah the drums… — Jason Derulo
We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we… — Graeme Murphy
We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I… — Otis Williams

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