Quotes about Symphony

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. Votes: 8

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. Votes: 8

A symphony is no joke. Votes: 6

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything. Votes: 6

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world. Votes: 6

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony. Votes: 6

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss. Votes: 6

While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream. Votes: 6

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them. Votes: 6

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding. Votes: 6

I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21. Votes: 6

Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw. Votes: 6

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. Votes: 4

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra. Votes: 4

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. Votes: 4

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. Votes: 4

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.' Votes: 4

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record. Votes: 4

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony. Votes: 4

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. Votes: 4

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. Votes: 4

To have everything written for you It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers. Votes: 4

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. Votes: 4

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. Votes: 4

every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli. Votes: 4

My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years. Votes: 4

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston. Votes: 4

Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. Votes: 4

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands. Votes: 4

In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh. Votes: 4

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable. Votes: 3

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style. Votes: 3

For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony, Votes: 3

If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony. Votes: 3

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. Votes: 3

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth. Votes: 3

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes. Votes: 3

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony. Votes: 3

Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you. Votes: 3

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience. Votes: 3

Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger. Votes: 3

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known. Votes: 3

It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. Votes: 3

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway. Votes: 3

Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare `entertainment.' It's not `entertainment.' It's culture. Votes: 3

Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies. Votes: 3

I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music. Votes: 3

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano. Votes: 3

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer. Votes: 3

Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is. Votes: 3

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment. Votes: 3

Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor the players liked the finale, which I also think rather horrible. Votes: 3

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it. Votes: 3

It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour. Votes: 3

I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much. Votes: 3

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet. Votes: 3

So here we are. The two of us. Me and this geezer I gotta kill. Sittin here in a car showroom office, lookin at each other, lettin Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony take us to places too beautiful and too fuckin sad for words. Votes: 3

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth! Votes: 3

There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before. Votes: 3

I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a piano teacher and a painter, so it was kind of a creative environment, and it was kind of in my DNA. Votes: 3

New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section. Votes: 3

Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third. The trumpet solo will be played by our solo trumpet player. It's named 'Blumine,' which has something to do with flowers. Votes: 3

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the carefully prepared cadence is frustrated, damming up energy which finally explodes in the throttling, murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release. Votes: 3

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards. Votes: 3

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards." Votes: 3

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away. Votes: 2

The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space. Votes: 2

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line. Votes: 2

The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and adds to the complex beauty of the symphony. Votes: 2

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers. Votes: 2

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? Votes: 2

When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do. Votes: 2

In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the 'Mind of God' is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace. Votes: 2

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything. Votes: 2

My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time. Votes: 2

It's clear on the one hand that an education enriches and informs a response to beauty, even makes it possible in esoteric cases. On the other hand, there's no question that someone with no musical education whatsoever might wander into a concert hall and be overwhelmed by the 'Beethoven Pastoral Symphony'. Votes: 2

On Mars, where the air is spare - a hundred times less dense than on Earth - someone could hear you scream. But you'd have to really strain to get anyone's attention. On the Red Planet, where the wind is high-pitched and faint, even a symphony orchestra will sound as thin as cheap gruel. Votes: 2

To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft. Votes: 2

No one can whistle a symphony. Votes: 0

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence. Votes: 0

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos. Votes: 0

Powerful words harmonize heart and mind as if a symphony. Votes: 0

Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand. Votes: 0

A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame. Votes: 0

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel. Votes: 0

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything. Votes: 0

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world. Votes: 0

Immerse yourself in nature's symphony and let your senses burst with joy. Votes: 0

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station. Votes: 0

You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up. Votes: 0

The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit. Votes: 0

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony. Votes: 0

I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow. Votes: 0

When the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in. Votes: 0

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. Votes: 0

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. Votes: 0

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups. Votes: 0

In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige. Votes: 0

Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations. Votes: 0

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. Votes: 0

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly. Votes: 0

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people. Votes: 0

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. Votes: 0

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing Votes: 0

The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread. Votes: 0

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. Votes: 0

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. Votes: 0

What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here. Votes: 0

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed. Votes: 0

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas. Votes: 0

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. Votes: 0

Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity. Votes: 0

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. Votes: 0

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. Votes: 0

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. Votes: 0

A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral. Votes: 0

Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life. Votes: 0

The perfect orchestration of the symphony of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles. Votes: 0

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game. Votes: 0

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting. Votes: 0

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. Votes: 0

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti." Votes: 0

Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life. Votes: 0

It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony. Votes: 0

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film. Votes: 0

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. Votes: 0

The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions. Votes: 0

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. Votes: 0

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony. Votes: 0

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one. Votes: 0

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life. Votes: 0

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul. Votes: 0

The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress. Votes: 0

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy. Votes: 0

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized. Votes: 0

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other. Votes: 0

When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra. Votes: 0

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet. Votes: 0

The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances. Votes: 0

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week. Votes: 0

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day. Votes: 0

You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality. Votes: 0

Focusing on that one review you feel is unfair misses the value, which is the whole symphony of opinions you get on your page. Votes: 0

Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals. Votes: 0

Lord #"Ž God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune. Votes: 0

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to the symphony orchestra. Votes: 0

The sweetest melody that playson starry nights and wintry days,most soothing to my listening earsand calming to beleaguering fears,I call a symphony on ai Votes: 0

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful enough. Votes: 0

Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen. Votes: 0

You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology Votes: 0

I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting. Votes: 0

Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize. Votes: 0

Cher and share alike. At least in sound. Most of the decisions I make are sound, exactly like Beethoven when he wrote and discarded his 10th symphony. Votes: 0

Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that. Votes: 0

Regular church-goers are substantially more likely than non-attenders to read, to take newspapers and magazines, to listen to classical music, to attend symphony concerts, operas, and stage plays. Votes: 0

Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due. Votes: 0

Success means to wake up, grow up, and show up, living your unique self, giving your unique gifts to the larger evolutionary symphony of life which needs your music. Votes: 0

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony. Votes: 0

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow. Votes: 0

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes. Votes: 0

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. Votes: 0

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even. Votes: 0

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. Votes: 0

We must realize our own talents and, having realized, accept them; and play on them like a symphony in which all other instruments are harmonized to make a better universe. Votes: 0

A Mozart symphony is very much like a Pixar movie - in the sense that Pixar movies are hugely successful because they operate on several levels at the same time. Votes: 0

Your whispers are gentle echoes that sway ardent winds of harmony and in the symphony of life each word is wrapped in rhapsodyDance with me within the windLet me love You Votes: 0

...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again. Votes: 0

Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality. Votes: 0

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness. Votes: 0

Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads To the pervading symphony of Peace. Votes: 0

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art. Votes: 0

A corporation exists to provide jobs for the community. A corporation exists to make charitable donations to the symphony or the homeless shelter or whatever it is. That's not why businesses exist. Votes: 0

Antarctic symphony has a geometric relationship to the landscape. It's saying that this landscape and the minimal kind of, you know I'm talking like seeing ice, is visually kind of eerily minimal. Votes: 0

A corporation exists to provide jobs for the community. A corporation exists to make charitable donations to the symphony or the homeless shelter or whatever it is. That's not why businesses exist. Votes: 0

Let today be the day you stop having conflict between your actions and your goals and finally align your greatest intent with your purposeful actions, creating a universal symphony serenading your success! Votes: 0

Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other. Votes: 0

When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, 'Forty-seven years - and I find I mind it less and less. Votes: 0

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note! Votes: 0

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe .. Votes: 0

Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony. Votes: 0

Your whispers are gentle echoes that sway ardent winds of harmony and in the symphony of life each word is wrapped in rhapsody... Dance with me within the wind... Let me love You... Votes: 0

It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians need to read the notes. Otherwise it will be a disaster. Votes: 0

Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little. Votes: 0

Like everyone else, I get swept along just trying to keep up with that endlessly growing to-do list, but I do my best to treat the day as one big meditation or symphony. Votes: 0

When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind. In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life. Votes: 0

The waters of the stream played the part of the orchestra, and the sunlight provided the dancers. Every now and then a crescendo of wind highlighted the symphony in the clearing by the creek. Votes: 0

Let today be the day you finally stop having a conflict between your actions and your goals. When you align your greatest intent with purposeful action, you create a universal symphony serenading your success! Votes: 0

There are moments in a woman's life when her heart flips in her chest, when the world suddenly seems uncommonly pink and perfect, when a symphony can be heard in the tinkle of a doorbell. Votes: 0

Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people - the Art Museum and a world class symphony that's still world class. Votes: 0