No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.

I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony.

Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life.

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

When I was just coming up, I always wanted to be able to perform to a large crowd with a symphony.

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

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

Western classical music is participative. Look at the number of people who are involved in a symphony.

I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor.

'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the biggest hip-hop records of all time once you actually analyse it.

Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you.

Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing

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

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.

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

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

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

Lord #‎ God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

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.

When I was five, I heard the end of Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony' with my mother, and I got goosebumps all over my body.

It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.

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

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.

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