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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

If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music. — Christo

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

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer. — Edward Kasner

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

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple. — Victor Hugo

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

It is a bizarre world. It is an upside down, inside out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America. — Glenn Beck

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

I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place. — Joe Goddard

But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head. — Samuel Beckett

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning. — William Mapother

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland

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

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one. — John Ruskin

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. — Oscar Wilde

Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people. — Joshua Bell

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note. — Alan Dean Foster

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord. — Karl Kraus

I've got great joy from rediscovering Western music. I love Schumann and Chopin, and those amazing symphonies of Bruckner. — John Tavener