Composing Quote by George Gershwin

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

— Gustav Mahler

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

— Alfred Schnittke

I have written six symphonies, they are smaller-scale works. I seem to emit my themes, work them out, combine and intertwine them, and then…

— Barbara Harbach

“Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.”

— Leslie Austin

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

— Danny Elfman

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing…

— Robert Schumann

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.

— Alan Dean Foster

Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.

— Raymond Carver

I don't pretend to want to write the Great American Symphony.

— Henry Mancini

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

— Alan Hovhaness

“The less number of people like my writing the happier I become. The masses do not understand a symphony too!”

— Avijeet Das