Symphony Quotes
296 quotes by 225 authors
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Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great…
— Malcolm Arnold
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Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up…
— William Christopher Handy
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I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
— Alan Hovhaness
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists fully only in…
— Rebecca Solnit
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I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.
— Unknown Author
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Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear…
— Nelson Goodman
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Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you can’t separate experience…
— Yusef Lateef
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I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
— Georg Solti
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For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use…
— George Arthur Buttrick
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I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school…
— Arthur Godfrey
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Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.
— Edward Kasner
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If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.
— Nicholas Sparks
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Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies.…
— Doc Severinsen
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It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is…
— Brian Ferneyhough
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I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements.…
— Maximilian Schell
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Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but…
— David Ives
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Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.It could be…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.
— H. L. Mencken
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Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.
— Thomas Beecham
Who Wrote These Symphony Quotes
225 authors contributed a total of 296 Symphony Quotes, led by these top contributors: