(34 quotes found)
“A symphony is no joke.”
Johannes Brahms
“A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors”
Colin Wilson
“So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.”
Eduard Hanslick
“I know now why Franz Schubert Never finished his unfinished symphony He would have written more but the clock struck four, And everything stopped for tea”
John Baldrey
“If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.”
Christo
“Mozart's symphonies are quite special. One of our landmarks is our recording of all of his symphonies, which means that we've recorded not 41, but 68 symphonies. Many people are unaware that there are many unnumbered symphonies.”
Christopher Lawrence
“It was a wonderful surprise. We did not know that Bertha had remembered the symphony in her will until after her death. It was such a generous thing to do.”
Carolyn Valacich
“I've always booked the theater with the idea of accommodating the unique needs of our groups. For example, the symphony can't be two weeks apart, and the theater groups all want to have three weekends per run ... the theater has always been scheduled with these things in mind, but we also have to gauge what the public is asking us to provide.”
Claire Kiley
“When we're in a state of health, the vibrations in our body sound like an orchestra playing a symphony. When we have disease, the sound is out of tune.”
Christine O'Grady
“The symphony gets the benefit for it as well. I've never seen a bad review on one of these shows.”
Ricky Skaggs
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