Symphony Quotes

• Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.

  

  John Milton
  • Heavens
  • Symphony
  • Aristotle

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

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mind

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

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Noise
  • Symphony

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

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Perfect
  • Harmony
  • Movements

• 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.

  

  Riccardo Muti
  • Entertainment
  • Symphony

• Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you can’t separate experience from the work of art. So, if I write for the symphony today, you’re listening to everything that’s happened to me since I was 18 years old.

  

  Yusef Lateef
  • Work
  • Art
  • Experience

• 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.

  

  Paul Erdos
  • Beautiful
  • Education
  • Numbers

• I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like a composer with a symphony in their head: I can hear the music, I just have to figure out how to put it down on paper. But I don't always know where my stories are going when I begin.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Music
  • Character

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

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Words
  • Relationship
  • Laughter

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

  

  William Mapother
  • Morning
  • Opera
  • Symphony

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

  

  Baldur von Schirach
  • Time
  • Youth
  • Faust

• 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.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Good
  • Music
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Erich Leinsdorf
  • Party
  • Director
  • Symphony

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

  

  Walt Disney
  • Movies
  • Canvas
  • Brush

• 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.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

  

  Plato
  • Harmony
  • Agreement
  • Symphony

• But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Universe
  • Quality
  • Christians

• Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares in the shimmering shadows the nuances of color that he transformed into the invisible core of his silent symphony.

  

  Elie Faure
  • Air
  • Shadows
  • Painted

• 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.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mind

• Motto at the top of the score of his Symphony 4: Inextinguishable

  

  Carl Nielsen
  • Motto
  • Symphony
  • Inextinguishable

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

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Symphony

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

  

  Jonathan Tropper
  • Loneliness
  • Symphony
  • Variations

• If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Song
  • Church

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

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Experience
  • Asking
  • Would Be

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