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My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night!
— Avijeet Das
Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.
— Sarah Caldwell
It was a walk, it was a chase, it was a symphony of time.
— Gina Marinello-Sweeney
Her laughter was my favorite symphony.
— Avijeet Das
No one can whistle a symphony.
— Halford Luccock
We're automatons in a symphony conducted by a lunatic and performed by blind idealists. Damon
— Eleni Papanou
The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit.
— Hildegard Of Bingen
Anyone who tells you that a greater symphony exists than the breath in your body is lying.
— Yasmina Khadra
Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning. These six senses increasingly will guide our lives and shape our world.
— Daniel H. Pink
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
— Colin Wilson
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.
— S.J Perelman
I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for more time two days before it's due.
— Darren Criss
Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you.
— Max Lucado
U201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
— Glenn Gould
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
Her emotional layers had the depth of a full symphony.
All I wanted was the bathe in her harmony. — Brodi Ashton
All I wanted was the bathe in her harmony. — Brodi Ashton
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
And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
I know now, like drumbeats. Portentous, and a little sinister, like tympani strikes at the start of a gloomy symphony. Shostakovich, maybe.
— Lee Child
There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.
— Brian K. Vaughan
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
In many ways, I think about the possibility that there could still be a Yes in 100 or 200 years from now, just like a live symphony orchestra.
— Chris Squire
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
Intoxicating perfumes, musky body scents mingle... blindfolding you, I orchestrate my symphony.
— Avijeet Das
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
— Gustav Mahler
A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on drums.
— Hunter S. Thompson
We're a symphony
our limbs and lips and skin making up the instruments, working together to create a beautiful piece of music. — Julie Cross
our limbs and lips and skin making up the instruments, working together to create a beautiful piece of music. — Julie Cross
I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.
— Olivia Newton-John
I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.
— Steven Pressfield
The perfect orchestration of the symphony of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles.
— Suzy Kassem
I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.
— Rumi
A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.
— Edward R. Murrow
Oh it's a bitter sweet symphony that's life.
— The Verve
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
When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.
— Atul Gawande
A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination.
— Aaron Copland
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
Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.
— Baldur Von Schirach
The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
— Harry Chapin
I can't relate to your razzle-dazzle, your wish
for voluptuous when my symphony is spanx. — Kelli Russell Agodon
for voluptuous when my symphony is spanx. — Kelli Russell Agodon
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
— Rita Dove
Beautifully indeed! But she does everything well. Have you seen her peel a banana? It is like listening to a symphony.
— Ben H. Winters
Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.
— Eugene Ormandy
What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.
— DJ Spooky
If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.
— Peter Kreeft
Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.
— David Gelernter
A peaceful feeling: A happy harmony or symphony of all of our character pieces working in powerful unison" from Cinderella In Focus
— H. L. Balcomb
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
— David Del Tredici
The philosopher seeks to hear within himself the echoes of the world of symphony and to re-project them in the form if concepts
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Symphony starts when you walk together, feel the heart beats and understand the unspoken words.
— Amit Ray
The grace is being able to like rock music,
symphony music, jazz ...
anything that contains the original energy of
joy. — Charles Bukowski
symphony music, jazz ...
anything that contains the original energy of
joy. — Charles Bukowski
Yet I questioned not why destiny does play a cruel melody at times for I knew that each note had a purpose within the symphony of life.
— Raneem Kayyali
The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.
— Jean Sibelius
Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.
— Gunther Schuller
When all you have to look at is white, given time you will see a symphony in shades of pale.
— Mark Lawrence
A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.
— Katherine Anne Porter
Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.
— Dimitris Mitropoulos
TWENTY YEARS AFTER the end of air travel, the caravans of the Traveling Symphony moved slowly under a white-hot sky.
— Emily St. John Mandel
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
— Bill Dedman
I see a symphony - and sometimes a grand opera - of elements that can be coordinated and harmonized to create a fantastic and memorable experience.
— Marc J. Sievers
The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.
— Brian A. McBride
Satisfaction played across his face in an inescapable symphony of creases and twitches and twinkling blue eyes.
— Dorothy Adamek
I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.
— Alfred Schnittke
Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics,
— Charlie Chaplin
A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.
— John Barrymore
We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.
— Guy Laliberte
If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?
— Lauren Wolk
Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.
— Edward Abbey
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
— Halford Luccock
The cold stars spun to the ancient rhythm, the august march of an everlasting symphony. They are old, the stars, and their memory is long.
— Rick Yancey
Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand.
— Frank Zappa
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
— Martin Short
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
You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony.
— Stephen Richards
Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.
— Nico Muhly
I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.
— Charles Hazlewood
A divorce is like a symphony with a screeching sound at the end - the fact that it ended badly does not mean it was all bad.
— Daniel Kahneman
Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
— Mikhail Bakunin
When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra.
— Laura Erickson
Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life.
— The Verve
An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
— Karl Kraus
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
— Arthur Rubinstein
Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.
— Nelly Mazloum