Quotes and Sayings About Symphony
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I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
-- Georg Solti -
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.
-- George Gershwin -
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing
-- Gerry Mulligan -
I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to the symphony orchestra.
-- Gerry Mulligan -
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
-- Gerry Mulligan -
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
-- Glenn Gould -
Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.
-- Gunther Schuller -
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
-- Gustav Mahler -
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
-- Gustav Mahler -
If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.
-- Gustav Mahler -
For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.
-- Gustavo Dudamel -
It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week.
-- Gustavo Dudamel -
We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.
-- Guy Laliberte -
The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
-- Harry Chapin -
And we would play together, like fine musicians should, And it would sound like music, and the music would sound good. But in real life I'm stuck with that same old formula, me and my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
-- Harry Chapin -
Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan -
The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit.
-- Hildegard of Bingen -
A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on drums.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
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.
-- Isaac Asimov -
For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.
-- James Agee -
The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.
-- Jane Byrne -
At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all at once, only its own part. Just like life. Each person was like a line of music, but nobody knew what the symphony sounded like. Only the conductor had the whole score.
-- Janet Fitch -
In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.
-- Jay Rayner -
For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony,
-- Jean Sibelius -
The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.
-- Jean Sibelius -
We must realize our own talents and, having realized, accept them; and play on them like a symphony in which all other instruments are harmonized to make a better universe.
-- Jeane Dixon -
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.
-- Joan Halifax -
The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.
-- John Millington Synge
