Symphony Quotes

296 quotes by 215 authors

I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes… — Jerry Spinelli
You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you… — Unknown Author
We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You are not required… — Sandra Steingraber
I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach,… — Charles Mingus
In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play… — Michio Kaku
Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germanyâ€™s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some… — Unknown Author
My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall,… — B B King
The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until… — Louis Kahn
These motivational tapes have really inspired me! I'm going to make a million dollars, buy my own company and retire early. Then, I'm going to… — Randy Glasbergen
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. — Gerry Mulligan
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return… — Joan Halifax
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like… — Warren G. Bennis
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
Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. — Edward Abbey
When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a… — Madeleine L'Engle
Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them. — Raymond Carver
You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that… — Owen Wilson
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -… — H. L. Mencken
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it… — Ludwig van Beethoven
A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame. — Edward R. Murrow

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