#symphony

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

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet. ↗

— Erich Leinsdorf

#come #could #director #find #first

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. ↗

— Nile Rodgers

#chair #feels #first #great #i

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#business #business career #career #i #just

I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's not a kind of performance art anymore; it's a highly tuned kind of collaboration - a symphony. ↗

— Vincent Kartheiser

#art #because #been #before #collaboration

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#beautiful #beethoven #elements #i #i think

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#orchestra #play #symphony #takes #you

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss. ↗

— Georg Solti

#been #chicago #director #extremely #i

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston. ↗

— James Spader

#arts #boston #common #different #different times

A visible shiver ran through Arthur. "Can you imagine letting him touch you? Be like kissing a snake that'd been dipped in snot." "Oh, now there's a mental image." Eric wrinkled his nose. "You have such a talent for description. ↗

— Cecilia Ryan

#imagination