A symphony is no joke.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Human atoms are the notes, their life the symphony.

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

I don't pretend to want to write the Great American Symphony.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.

My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'

A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.

The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit.

No technology comes close to the effect of a live symphony orchestra.

Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

Immerse yourself in nature’s symphony and let your senses burst with joy.

The 'Mozart Symphony No. 27' is an early composition. I find it charming.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

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

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony.

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

Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

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

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.

If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.

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

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

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

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

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