Boston Quote by Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

— Zubin Mehta

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

— Zubin Mehta

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

— Zubin Mehta

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are…

— Zubin Mehta

There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

— Zubin Mehta

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

— Neville Marriner

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the…

— Malcolm Arnold

“Even now, the angling of the light into this room. The curl of the curtain as it falls from a slackening breeze. To call…

— Stephen P. Kiernan

If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.

— Christo

Symphonies can generate a tremendous amount of sounds, beauty, and emotion. That is part of their human feel and sweetness. Keyboards, on the other…

— Yanni

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's…

— Martin Fowler

“Outside Soviet Russia, and following the last symphonies of Mahler, Nielsen and Sibelius, an element of obsolescence has unmistakably attached itself to the genre.…

— Pauline Fairclough

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

— Alfred Schnittke

Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics,

— Charlie Chaplin