#symphonies

I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused to lie down and die. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#humor #humour #music #symphonies #humor

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! ↗

— Malcolm Arnold

#am #another #been #donald #expert

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another? ↗

— David Byrne

#attitude #beats #fundamental #hip-hop #i

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

#anybody #colleagues #composers #decided #drop

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. ↗

— Paul Whiteman

#muscles #soul #stretch #symphonies #your

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#anything #bands #being #big #big bands

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#head #hear #i #note #symphonies

We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look. ↗

— Otis Williams

#been #career #girl #i #large

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

— Tina Turner

#conversations #heaven #i #notes #symphonies

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#i #i think #own #place #symphonies