Became Quote by Zubin Mehta

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

— Zubin Mehta

I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then…

— Zubin Mehta

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

— Zubin Mehta

We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with…

— Doc Severinsen

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

— Alan Hovhaness

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

— Christo

“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

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

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