Symphonies Quotes
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Symphonies Quotes & Sayings
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Feeble and timid minds ... consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
— Edward Gibbon
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
— Neville Marriner
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.
— S.J Perelman
If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.
— Gustav Mahler
Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.
— Eudora Welty
I hear the wind among the trees playing the celestial symphonies.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.
— Joshua Bell
I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.
— Alfred Schnittke
Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.
— Raymond Carver
People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.
— Albert Wynn
Caged birds still sing beautiful symphonies.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Search the truth for yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I just sing. I sing whatever I can.
— Sarah Vaughan
I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
— Alan Hovhaness
Being on TV has changed my life because I get lots of free stuff!
— Kim Kardashian
Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics,
— Charlie Chaplin
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
— Paul Whiteman
But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
— Samuel Beckett
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
This is what I want in heaven ... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
— Tina Turner
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
— Oscar Wilde
I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.
— Alan Dean Foster
