Symphony Quotes

296 quotes by 215 authors

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film. — Stanley Kubrick
Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes. — Aaron Copland
Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics, — Charlie Chaplin
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. — Robertson Davies
To have everything written for you It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what… — Buddy Rich
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided… — Zoltan Kodaly
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones. — Dmitri Shostakovich
If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder. — Unknown Author
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your… — Unknown Author
Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed. — Edward Abbey
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. — Neville Marriner
While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not… — Adam Schiff
Most of the things that really matter require faith. How do I know that my wife loves me? How do I know that Mozarts Jupiter… — N. T. Wright
Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a… — Max Lucado
Symphonies can generate a tremendous amount of sounds, beauty, and emotion. That is part of their human feel and sweetness. Keyboards, on the other hand,… — Yanni
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing — Gerry Mulligan
I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to the symphony orchestra. — Gerry Mulligan
In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige. — Jay Rayner
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the… — Susan McClary

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