Symphony Quotes - page 5

I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for more time two days before it's due. (Darren Criss)
You start out with simple concepts,.. All of this beautiful edifice of geometry, for example, comes out of this configuration of lines and points... Think of the simple opening--dum dum dum dum!--of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. In music you start out with a trivial motif and it turns into this beautiful, intricate composition,... Again, it all stems from this small, very simple idea. View quote
Noam Elkies
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. View quote
Amar Bose
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people. View quote
Andre Previn
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically. View quote
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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. View quote
Gerry Mulligan
For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different. View quote
Gustavo Dudamel
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. View quote
Gustavo Dudamel
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. View quote
Gustavo Dudamel
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. View quote
Guy Clark
We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony. (Guy Laliberte)
The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world. View quote
Jane Byrne
Focusing on that one review you feel is unfair misses the value, which is the whole symphony of opinions you get on your page. View quote
Jeremy Stoppelman
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. View quote
Leonard Slatkin
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. View quote
Louis Kahn
I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony. View quote
Benedetta Tagliabue
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. View quote
Donny Hathaway
My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one. View quote
Marvin Hamlisch
But some people will say you just did these programs. Well, yes, the programs are important and I'm proud of the programs, but mostly I'm proud of the way the San Francisco Symphony plays these programs. View quote
Michael Tilson Thomas
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. View quote
Nile Rodgers
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. (Summer Glau)
If getting used to music is the essential condition for understanding, it is hard to see just what purpose is served by writing about it. A few experiences of listening to a symphony or nocturne are worth more than any essay or analysis. The work of art itself teaches us how to understand it, and makes the critic not merely parasitical but strictly superfluous. View quote
Charles Rosen
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'. View quote
Denis Dutton
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies that generates consciousness, just as tones from individual instruments produce the rich, complex, & seamless sounds of a symphony orchestra. View quote
Francis Crick
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss. View quote
Georg Solti