Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. Votes: 8
Mikhail BakuninBeethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. Votes: 4
E. M. ForsterThe very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra. Votes: 4
Harry ChapinThe first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. Votes: 4
Gerry MulliganSymphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style. Votes: 3
Gunther SchullerFor an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony, Votes: 3
Jean SibeliusIf Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony. Votes: 3
Nicholas SparksTanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth. Votes: 3
Sarah CaldwellListening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes. Votes: 3
Aaron CoplandI really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony. Votes: 3
Olivia Newton-JohnElgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station. Votes: 0
Thomas BeechamWhen the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in. Votes: 0
Tom AlthouseNo symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. Votes: 0
Bernard WilliamsCincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups. Votes: 0
Bill DedmanLoneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations. Votes: 0
Jonathan TropperBizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly. Votes: 0
Eugene OrmandyA Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people. Votes: 0
Andre PrevinMy mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. Votes: 0
Martin ShortA symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. Votes: 0
Colin WilsonWhat I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here. Votes: 0
DJ SpookyAnton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyMovies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas. Votes: 0
Walt DisneyOnly life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity. Votes: 0
Dimitris MitropoulosHistory is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. Votes: 0
Charles AngoffThe seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. Votes: 0
Arthur RubinsteinNo poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. Votes: 0
Walter BenjaminA good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral. Votes: 0
Fernand PointEach person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life. Votes: 0
Joseph B. WirthlinEach day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoOne man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film. Votes: 0
Stanley KubrickI am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. Votes: 0
RumiWhen the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in. Votes: 3 Tom Althouse