Beautiful Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we eventually learn that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished.

— Karl Rahner

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

— Gustav Mahler

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

— Gustav Mahler

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

— Gustav Mahler

“The unfinished symphony that is your life is built on the harmony within your orchestra that grows in number of musicians every time you…

— Will Jelbert

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

— Alfred Schnittke

“It is as if you have described a symphony of Beethoven accurately, with all the notes right, and the dynamics, and the pace of…

— Timothy Cook

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

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

— Raymond Carver

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

— Yoko Ono

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least,…

— George Gershwin