Symphony Quotes

296 quotes by 226 authors

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. — Mikhail Bakunin
A symphony is no joke. — Johannes Brahms
When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece… — Dave Brubeck
It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it… — David Byrne
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. — Arthur Rubinstein
Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads… — John Greenleaf Whittier
All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been… — H. L. Mencken
From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey… — Meredith Willson
Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger. — Victor Borge
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. — Bernard Williams
...As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We… — Anthony de Mello
Existence cares. When I say God cares I mean that existence cares for you, it is not indifferent. Let this be the foundation of your… — Rajneesh
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. — Nicholas Meyer
What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of… — Anthony de Mello
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies… — Francis Crick
If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself,… — Steven Pressfield
Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about… — Elisabeth Murdoch
The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything. — John Millington Synge
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a… — Berenice Abbott
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to… — Madeleine L'Engle

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