“ When I was a kid, I won a contest and played a Mozart concerto with the Chicago Symphony, and I've written some movie scores, and I've been listening to orchestral music for years. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
- 3.1K
“ There's only one woman I know of who could never be a symphony conductor, and that's the Venus de Milo. ”
- Margaret Hillis- Copy
- 2.9K
“ 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. ”
- David Ives- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. ”
- Glenn Gould- Copy
- 2.2K
“ When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. ”
- Madeleine L’Engle- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Each of my symphonies has a fresh character with a specific definition of their own. ”
- George Lloyd- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. ”
- Nicholas Meyer- Copy
- 2K
“ It doesn't make sense to talk about successful corporations in a society whose schools, hospitals, churches, symphonies, or libraries are deteriorating or closing. ”
- Clifton C. Garvin Jr.- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays. ”
- Terry Riley- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas. ”
- S.J. Perelman- Copy
- 552
“ A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums. ”
- Hunter S. Thompson- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it, it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony. ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
- 607
“ The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll. ”
- George Whelton- Copy
- 589
“ A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. ”
- Colin Wilson- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Giving a few dollars to a blind beggar or a destitute orphan may be characterized as charity; a large gift of money to an educational institution or a symphony orchestra is philanthropy. ”
- Carl Bakal- Copy
- 1.7K
“ If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden. ”
- Beran W. Wolfe- Copy
- 231
“ A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized. ”
- John Barrymore- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. ”
- Arthur Rubenstein- Copy
- 3K
“ When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 1.8K
“ What is the value of a meteor shower, a symphony, a good belly laugh, a poem, a bird's song, an act of selfless kindness, or a child's smile? These things are valuable because they quietly, persistently give life meaning. Not everyone can perceive the significance of a meteor shower or a symphony; not everyone is capable of appreciating acts of selfless kindness or good belly laughs… ”
- Timothy Ray Miller- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Every graduate at the conservatoire is able to compose a Symphony, and maybe it will even receive a performance. But to write a melody which is sung and played by hundreds of interpreters is something one really has to be born to - ideally in America. ”
- Wojciech Kilar- Copy
- 675
“ Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony on television, and it was awesome. The music was so gorgeous I wasn't just crying tears, I was sobbing. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I'm familiar to people. They feel comfortable with me. I started in live television. I perform live all the time. I sing with the piano. I sing with a symphony. I can sit and ask questions. I can listen. I'm very comfortable in most situations. ”
- Florence Henderson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular. ”
- Eduard Hanslick- Copy
- 824
“ God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. ”
- Julie Harris- Copy
- 147
“ Things we do and experience have resonance. It can die away quickly or last a long time; it can have a clear center frequency or a wide bandwidth; be loud, soft or ambiguous. The present is filled with past experience ringing in various ways and now is colored by this symphony of resonance. ”
- Paul Lansky- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Let your rule in reference to your social desires be this. Pray for the bad, pity the weak, enjoy the good, and reverence both the great and the small, as each playing their part in the divine symphony of the universe. ”
- Professor Blackie- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man — that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense — has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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