Top 426 Symphony Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the greatest pieces of modern art created by anyone. I'm not blowing my own trumpet here.
When I was five, I heard the end of Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony' with my mother, and I got goosebumps all over my body.
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.
I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony.
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.
And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.
Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions.
I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.
Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.
I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.
Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you.
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.
Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.
Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life.
A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.
The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology
Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.
When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.
I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor.
'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the biggest hip-hop records of all time once you actually analyse it.
There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.
If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
Part of an ensemble show is realizing it's a collaboration. It's like a symphony. Everybody takes their turn, but it's really the collective group that matters.
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.
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 out!
Western classical music is participative. Look at the number of people who are involved in a symphony.
The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.
Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
One could work on a lot of albums such as 'Thiruvasagam in Symphony,' but with issues such as illegal downloading from the Internet and piracy, it is difficult.
A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
When I was just coming up, I always wanted to be able to perform to a large crowd with a symphony.
Lord #? God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.
Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony that he's not interested in it, you know perfectly well he's lying.
Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.
It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.
Focusing on that one review you feel is unfair misses the value, which is the whole symphony of opinions you get on your page.
I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.
A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.
When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.
With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me."
