#symphony

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

#bows #high #high school #i #loved

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#burning desire #desire #having #i #myself

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#everything #like #must #symphony #world

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#his #mention #mozart #music #opera

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#dynamic #especially #into #kind #orchestra

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#first #mine #new #piece #play

While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#barriers #beautiful #breaking #brotherhood #country

The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#carlo-maria-giulini #humor #mornings #music #schubert

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#add #artist #cognitive #coming #hear

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record. ↗

— Teddy Wilson

#concert #concert hall #get #hall #hear