Composer Quote by Gerry Mulligan

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

— Colin Wilson

It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and…

— Charles Hazlewood

When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He…

— Ayn Rand

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

— Leonard Bernstein

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

— Skitch Henderson

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

— Glen Campbell

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

“Outside Soviet Russia, and following the last symphonies of Mahler, Nielsen and Sibelius, an element of obsolescence has unmistakably attached itself to the genre.…

— Pauline Fairclough

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

I like philharmonic music a lot. That kind of symphonic music has always been an integral part of the arrangements in many of my…

— Vidyasagar