Age Quote by Walter Damrosch

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

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

A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of…

— James Keller

I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.

— Steven Pressfield

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

— Gustav Mahler

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

— Danny Elfman

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is…

— Zoltan Kodaly

You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.

— Andre Previn

“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

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

— Gustav Mahler

“A serial killer is a rare and specific criminal profile. In males the motives’re sexual in nature usually, or nonsexual sadism. And while there’s…

— Jeffery Deaver