Quotes by 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 symphony morning fall I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow. Steven Pressfield symphony tomorrow writing When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews. Steven Spielberg symphony mother hands I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14. Summer Glau scholarship symphony kids The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of music....The point is not to hold up Beethoven as exceptionally monstrous. The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment. Moreover, within the parameters of his own musical compositions, he may be heard as enacting a critique of narrative obligations that is...devestating. Susan McClary enlightenment symphony musical The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the carefully prepared cadence is frustrated, damming up energy which finally explodes in the throttling, murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release. Susan McClary frustrated symphony movement 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 orchestra symphony sound Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station. Thomas Beecham symphony music firsts This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies. Tina Turner inspirational-music symphony heaven The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite - the staccato. All attempts to reconcile this discrepancy are based on the hope that an accelerated staccato may appear to our senses as a legato. Tobias Dantzig symphony opposites numbers Like everyone else, I get swept along just trying to keep up with that endlessly growing to-do list, but I do my best to treat the day as one big meditation or symphony. Tohoru Masamune symphony meditation trying Immerse yourself in nature’s symphony Tom Brown, Jr. senses symphony joy The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple. Victor Hugo symphony simple world We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies. Viktor E. Frankl symphony beautiful death 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 collaboration symphony art No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. Walter Benjamin beholder symphony reader Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas. Walt Disney orchestra symphony expression 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 symphony song bird I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning. William Mapother opera symphony morning People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music. William Shatner symphony writing father «345678910111213»