Symphony Quotes

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'. Denis Dutton
Education Beauty Other Symphony Musical Possible Response Someone Cases No Question Clear Concert Concert Hall Hall Makes Beethoven Question Hand Overwhelmed Esoteric Whatsoever Wander Informs Might Even
Rock music has always embraced - and even represented - rebellion, rowdiness, and a robust disdain for social decorum. But along with more classical art forms like theater, opera, and the symphony, it's suffering from the distracted, smartphone-carrying audiences of the digital age. Elizabeth Flock
Music Art Age Suffering Rebellion Digital Symphony Digital Age Distracted Embraced Classical More Along Like Opera Robust Rock Always Audiences Rock Music Art Forms Disdain Theater Forms Social Decorum Even
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. Elvis Costello
Work Opportunity Jazz Group Symphony Symphony Orchestra Ten Ten Years Write Had Over Arrangements Quartet Years Orchestra After Even Chamber Last
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically. Esa-Pekka Salonen
Music People Spring Symphony Physically Rite Feel End Want
I was such a dork in high school. I like - I played sports. I played in the symphony. I auditioned all the time. I was thrown off the sports teams for auditioning all the time. Ethan Peck
Time Sports School Symphony High High School Thrown Like Auditioning Off Dork Teams Played
What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be saved and savored. But the performances of the athletic artists who ran and jumped and wrestled were gone with the wind. Frank Deford
Art Great Book Wind Gone Painting Great Art Saved Symphony Ran Athletic Could Performance Accepted Were Artists Whether Which Script Gone With The Wind Who
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss. Georg Solti
Sad Music Director Become Symphony Music Director Extremely Would Never Been Loss Chicago Which
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. Gerry Mulligan
First Symphony Mine New Piece Concerts Reason Play Starting
A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love. Gustavo Dudamel
Love Christmas Home Me Long First Too Symphony Gave Put Fell Understand Friend Expecting Listen Then Present Started
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. Harvey Pekar
Art Class People World Reputation World-Class Symphony Bad Wealthy Stuff Over Cleveland Still Were Lot Left Very Museum
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. Isaac Hayes
Time School Stage Symphony Saw Strings Those High Wow High School Bows Always Same Orchestra Same Time Loved Moving Playing
My experience with the Detroit Symphony has been musically very satisfying. They have a wonderful sound, which for me is one of the most important qualities in an orchestra. Itzhak Perlman
Me Experience Wonderful Important Symphony Musically Has-Been Detroit Most Qualities Sound Been Very Orchestra The Most Important Which Satisfying
In Berlin... it's important to present a concert that will change their ears... so if you present a Tchaikovsky symphony, you get almost no audience. Jan Vogler
You Change Will Important Symphony Ears Berlin Almost Concert Audience Get Present
'Iceman' covers a bigger scope than 'Long Day's Journey.' But they're both fabulous pieces of work. 'Iceman' is like a symphony. It's got all the movements, all these different voices. 'Long Day's Journey' is more like a beautiful string quartet. Jason Robards
Work Beautiful Day Journey Long Symphony String String Quartet Fabulous More Both Voices Like Pieces Got Quartet Scope Covers Than Movements Different Bigger
When I was five, I heard the end of Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony' with my mother, and I got goosebumps all over my body. John McLaughlin
Mother Symphony Ninth Over Goosebumps Got Heard Beethoven End Five Body
When Beethoven's Seventh Symphony was premiered, after the second movement, they clapped so much that they had the repeat the second movement and do it again. Joshua Bell
Symphony Seventh Had Repeat Beethoven Movement After Again Much Second
The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony. Joshua Bell
Travel World Sit Symphonies Symphony Would Gotten Listen Then Used Play Things Playing
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. Julie Harris
Beautiful God Humanity Wonderful Communicate Painting Other Symphony Symphony Orchestra Our Way Ballet Orchestra Whether Theater Us Each Expressing Play
Part of an ensemble show is realizing it's a collaboration. It's like a symphony. Everybody takes their turn, but it's really the collective group that matters. Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Collective Matters Group Everybody Symphony Collaboration Ensemble Part Takes Like Turn Realizing Really Show
I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things. K. A. Applegate
Music Symphony Tend Write Toward Lean Opposed End Short Brief Chamber Things
Calling 'Instagram' a photo-sharing app is like calling a newspaper a letter-sharing book, or a Mozart grand era symphony a series of notes. 'Instagram' is less about the medium and more about the network. Kevin Systrom
Book Medium Symphony About More Network Instagram Like Calling Era Grand Newspaper Notes Mozart App Less Series
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. Kurt Masur
Thought Young Heroic Symphony Must Piece Misunderstanding Heard Beethoven South South America Conductor America Which Deep
I was classically trained. But more than just the fact that I play violin, there's a lot of classical elements in the way I write, in the way I hear chords. A lot of times, I think of my songs as a symphony made out of electronics rather than instruments. And I love to do orchestral arrangements of my songs after they're done. Lindsey Stirling
Love Made Think Symphony Way Out Classical Rather More Fact Write Songs Instruments Arrangements Hear Lot Times Trained Than Done Just Orchestral After Chords Electronics Elements Play Violin
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. Martin Short
Mother Master Symphony Criticized Eccentricity Absurdity Concert Were
The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start. Mary Barra
Family You Women Yourself Sometimes Path Before Young Tree Symphony Local Say Unnecessarily Out Running Take Know Message Off Branches Want Biggest Young Women Themselves Cutting Your Even Play Start Early Career Career Path Pulling
As the 19th century teetered into the 20th, the clank of typewriter keys went from solo to symphony. They were the weapon of choice for professional writers, the business elite, people with things to say and the need to say them quickly. Mary Pilon
Business People Symphony Keys Typewriter Say Solo Weapon Writers Were Quickly Them Century Choice Professional Things Elite Need
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