#symphony

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 symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. ↗

— Colin Henry Wilson

#instruments #parts #play #stage #stage play

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

I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#been #before #being #choir #college

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

#bird #built #call #consciousness #could

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. ↗

— Julie Harris

#beautiful #comes #communicate #each #expressing

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

— Gustav Mahler

#everything #like #must #symphony #world

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#composers #instruments #love #musical #orchestras

When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind. In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life. ↗

— Toba Beta

#harmony #heart #inspirational #instument #life