Symphony Quotes

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Whether itâ€™s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity… — Ayn Rand
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world. — Gustav Mahler
For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony, — Jean Sibelius
Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience. — Baldur von Schirach
The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite - the staccato.… — Tobias Dantzig
Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole… — Alan Watts
God is able to cause all things people do to us, even the bad things, to work together for our good (Rom. 8:28). That isn't… — Sam Storms
You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds… — Hugh Jackman
To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
He wanted us to play whatever we played in the most characteristic and appropriate style. Even it was the theme from 'The Godfather,' you needed… — Manny Laureano
A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a… — James Keller
Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell is… — Stefan Kieszling
For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a… — Tom Glazer
During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini that they rose… — James Keller
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or… — E. O. Wilson
So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions… — Eduard Hanslick
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They… — Billy Joel
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos. — Deepak Chopra
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. — Paul Whiteman
Lord #â€Ž God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my… — Mother Angelica

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