Symphony Quotes
296 quotes by 215 authors
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Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.
— Paulo Coelho
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If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our…
— Peter Kreeft
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The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.
— Jane Byrne
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The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions.
— Masaru Emoto
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History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.
— Charles Angoff
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Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all…
— Barbara Cook
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Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both…
— John F. Kennedy
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There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.
— Brian K. Vaughan
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But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to…
— Michael Tilson Thomas
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I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as…
— Alfred de Musset
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Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.
— Eugene Ormandy
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Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.
— Eugene Ormandy
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Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third. The…
— Eugene Ormandy
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I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him…
— Desmond Tutu
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We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the…
— Amar Bose
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Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on…
— Michio Kaku
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Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
— David Del Tredici
Who Wrote These Symphony Quotes
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