Symphony Quotes

296 quotes by 215 authors

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if… — Erich Leinsdorf
It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit. — Benjamin Zander
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different… — Rollo May
The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few… — Carson McCullers
Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing in Heaven. We're… — David Berg
The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet… — Victor Hugo
I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony… — Isaac Asimov
But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of… — Evelyn Underhill
Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with… — Robert Schumann
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. — Glenn Gould
Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity. — Dimitris Mitropoulos
I'm familiar to people. They feel comfortable with me. I started in live television. I perform live all the time. I sing with the piano.… — Florence Henderson
Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at… — Daniel H. Pink
You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up. — Andre Previn
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. — Martin Short
Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to… — David Letterman
Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings. — John Boyle O'Reilly
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting. — David Gelernter
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can… — Robert Fripp
When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part. — Atul Gawande

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