Top 916 Symphony Orchestra Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don't hold on to a few bars of the music. Don't hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass.

What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.

You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is to fight with the wheel and jam on the brakes, which is the quickest way to get killed. What you have to do is let go, and the car will right itself. It's the same when an orchestra loses its ensemble. You have to resist the temptation to semaphore, and let the orchestra find its own way back to the pulse.

In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.

I got to perform the [Jaques] Ibert Concertino Da Camera with a brilliant pianist at school named Chunga. I got to perform the [Alexander] Glazunov Concerto in senior year with our school orchestra and the Jewish Grossman orchestra. I won a scholarship from the Goldman band to perform the [Paul] Creston Concerto. Which I never played with them, but they still gave me the money.

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian or it's Western. But in India, I think it's limited to filler music unfortunately. That's one thing I want to push in India where we have the infrastructure of an orchestra where you play Indian melodies with an orchestra and something different for a universal audience. It requires a lot of work from me.

When you write for an orchestra, the sky's the limit.

Immerse yourself in nature’s symphony and let your senses burst with joy.

If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.

No one can whistle a symphony.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

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

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of music....The point is not to hold up Beethoven as exceptionally monstrous. The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment. Moreover, within the parameters of his own musical compositions, he may be heard as enacting a critique of narrative obligations that is...devestating.

The guitar is an orchestra in itself.

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

It can and will be a more powerful sound but the orchestra has far more potential for expressive power. When I hear a great rock band it can make me feel alive, but when I hear a great orchestra it can make me feel human.

A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how."

I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony was a complex and demanding form and it would be better to start with something simpler. The young man protested, 'But, Herr Mozart, you wrote symphonies when you were younger than I am now.' Mozart replied, 'I never asked how.

The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie... keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies - it soars in a way that's really magical.

Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.

A symphony is no joke.

You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell is lifted from its rack out into the morning. On another rack the oars hang ready to be greased and slipped into the locks. Then, awakened to the river and the feel of the oars, the oarsmen blend in fulfillment of the shell. The symphony is not of competition. It is the synchronous motion over water, the harmonic flexing of wood and muscle, where each piece of equipment and every oarsman is both essential to, and the limit of motion itself.

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

The 'Mozart Symphony No. 27' is an early composition. I find it charming.

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.

You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.

When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play the symphony for them. Then I sit and I look at them. I always pick a piece of music that has up and downs, very dramatic parts, very quiet parts and really sensitive parts so that it can produce different emotions.

Human atoms are the notes, their life the symphony.

Every orchestra has its own sound.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some things. I was always just really fascinated with drums, it was the instrument I was always drawn towards. My ear sort of went to rhythmic aspects of music and songs. But he really was the beginning point of starting me on drum sets; like I said, I was in the orchestra first and I was playing orchestral snare and mallet instruments first.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

I don't pretend to want to write the Great American Symphony.

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.

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

Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third. The trumpet solo will be played by our solo trumpet player. It's named 'Blumine,' which has something to do with flowers.

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.

My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Long track is more of a symphony... You're out there and you want to get in the zone.