Architecture Quote by Thomas Beecham Download Open image ““The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station. (on Elgar)”” — Thomas Beecham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Composers Humor Insult Music
Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
“Which is this magical listening station, whereupon all musical worth is decided?” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“A escrita suprema de imaginar por música as coisas: louças, comidas, roupas.” — Herberto Helder Copy Share Image
“Thus the pleasure that a noble temple gives us is only in part owing to the temple. It is exalted by the beauty of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“This music had been played and heard before and would be again, not only here in this church, but in places all over the… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel so simple… — Don Campbell Copy Share Image
“The musicians-how shall one begin to describe them? All this time they have been there, playing in a mad frenzy-all of this scene must… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe.” — Don Campbell Copy Share Image
“For a moment it seemed that this was the music of a song, once heard under the southern stars in a cafe-chantant, with half-absurd,… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“Chantel plays the piece with such passion that I can only sum it up as this: If the notion of sublime were to take… — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
So it became in my mind a nine-carol service; an oratorio and orchestral concert all in one, but with narration. That's something I've learned… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
