Symphony Quotes

Symphony Quote of the day

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.

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.

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.

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

A symphony is no joke.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

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

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

A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

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

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.

Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then.

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

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.

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.