Symphony Quote by Johannes Brahms Download Open image “A symphony is no joke.” — Johannes Brahms ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Symphony
You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. — Navjot Singh Sidhu Copy Share Image
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen. — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings? — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God. The powers… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer. — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon. — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in… — Joe Goddard Copy Share Image
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, 'Forty-seven years - and… — Louise Andrews Kent Copy Share Image
A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing that your… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics, — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I wanted to unite the popular and the serious, and to make a popular symphony, a popular oratorio. — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
