Instruments Quote by Colin Wilson

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

— Gustav Mahler

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

— Glen Campbell

A symphony is no joke.

— Johannes Brahms

“You are not a note in a symphony; you are the entire symphony in a note.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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,…

— David Ives

The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.

— Jean Sibelius

Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good…

— Daniel H. Pink

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

— Gerry Mulligan

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

— Cecil Taylor

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy,…

— William Ellery Channing