Instruments Quote by Neville Marriner

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

— Raymond Carver

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

— Andre Previn

I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.

— Lil Xan

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

— Wynton Marsalis

A lot of people don't know that Beethoven, when he wrote the Fifth Symphony, that second movement, he took eight years to figure that…

— Wayne Shorter

“In every field, even the most eminent creators typically produce a large quantity of work that’s technically sound but considered unremarkable by experts and…

— Adam M. Grant

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

“Did Beethoven create his symphonies for his glorification? I don't believe it. I believe he created them because the music in his soul demanded…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It was Haydn and Mozart who really cracked the sonata, but it was Beethoven who reinvented it, just as he reinvented the symphony. Bach…

— Rachel Joyce

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

— Alan Hovhaness

I would say that Beethoven's late string quartets are the nearest to God that we'll ever get.

— Sheila Hancock

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