Quotes of: Symphony Keyword

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

Georg Solti

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

Neville Marriner

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

Zubin Mehta

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

Tina Turner

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

Yoko Ono

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

Neville Marriner

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

Robert Klein

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

You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony.

Stephen Richards

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

Benedetta Tagliabue

What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.

Brian Greene

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

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

Guy Clark

In the symphony of love, the lost chord is a small organ lying somewhat north of the vagina.

Adams rib

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

Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.

Laurie Colwin

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

Buddy Rich

Focusing on that one review you feel is unfair misses the value, which is the whole symphony of opinions you get on your page.

Jeremy Stoppelman

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

Colin Wilson

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

I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

Isaac Hayes