Quotes and Sayings About Symphony
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Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.
-- Nelly Mazloum -
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
-- Neville Marriner -
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
-- Neville Marriner -
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
-- Nicholas Meyer -
If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.
-- Nile Rodgers -
Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.
-- Paul Erdos -
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
-- Paul McCreesh -
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
-- Paul Whiteman -
Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.
-- Paulo Coelho -
Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That He can cleanse us in such a way that we are able to be with Him and can stand there in the fullness of life. Purgatory strips off from one person what is unbearable and from another the inability to bear certain things, so that in each of them a pure heart is revealed, and we can see that we all belong together in one enormous symphony of being.
-- Pope Benedict XVI -
These motivational tapes have really inspired me! I'm going to make a million dollars, buy my own company and retire early. Then, I'm going to write a novel and a symphony and give all the profits to charity. Then next month, I'll figure out how to do it.
-- Randy Glasbergen -
Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.
-- Raymond Carver -
Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare `entertainment.' It's not `entertainment.' It's culture.
-- Riccardo Muti -
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?
-- Robert Fripp -
Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.
-- Robert Schumann -
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.
-- Robert Schumann -
I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.
-- Rumi -
every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.
-- Ruth St. Denis -
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.
-- S. J. Perelman -
God is able to cause all things people do to us, even the bad things, to work together for our good (Rom. 8:28). That isn't to say that all things are good, but that God can orchestrate the evil into a symphony of glory.
-- Sam Storms -
We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You are not required to play a solo, but you are required to know what instrument you hold and play it as well as you can. You are required to find your place in the score. What we love we must protect. That’s what love means. From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.
-- Sandra Steingraber -
Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.
-- Sarah Caldwell -
If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in “creative leaps,” no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss; everyone who could recognize a good investment strategy would be Warren Buffett.
-- Scott Aaronson -
It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new at the same time. That was the kind of symphony I wanted to write: a symphony in the classical style. And when I saw that my idea was beginning to work, I called it the Classical Symphony.
-- Sergei Prokofiev -
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
-- Sherwin B. Nuland -
I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on.
-- Slavoj Žižek -
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
-- Stanley Kubrick -
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.
-- Stefan Kieszling -
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.
-- Summer Glau
