Favourite Quote by Malcolm Arnold

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the…

— Dave Brubeck

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

— Alan Hovhaness

I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for more time…

— Darren Criss

Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time…

— Darren Criss

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

— Raymond Carver

I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.

— Lil Xan

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

I love symphonies. I love string sections.

— Glen Campbell

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

— Edward Abbey

“It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.”

— E.M. Forster

I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor.

— Simon Rattle

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

— Dmitri Shostakovich