#symphonies

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

— Alan Hovhaness

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If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music. ↗

— Christo

#music #our #some #symphonies #then

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. ↗

— Neville Marriner

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We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#because #big #commission #instrumentation #nature

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

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Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. ↗

— Paul Whiteman

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