Quotes by Symphony I'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston Symphony, and I'm in that world a lot now. I'm surprised at how difficult it is for people who are classically trained to read music or to memorize music, how difficult it is for them to improvise, to just go off and play. It's sort of, it's like terra incognita. They just, (makes noise) they don't get it. James Taylor boston symphony play The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world. Jane Byrne symphony chicago world At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all at once, only its own part. Just like life. Each person was like a line of music, but nobody knew what the symphony sounded like. Only the conductor had the whole score. Janet Fitch lines symphony play In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige. Jay Rayner vegan-food symphony food The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances. Jean Sibelius environment symphony strong For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony. Jean Sibelius symphony play doors We must realize our own talents and, having realized, accept them; and play on them like a symphony in which all other instruments are harmonized to make a better universe. Jeane Dixon talent symphony play Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But creating a monumental work of architecture, or writing a great symphony, is something else. It's a higher order of creation. Jim Woodring symphony writing art We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range. Joan Halifax our-world symphony silence I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place. Joe Goddard teenage symphony littles A symphony is no joke. Johannes Brahms jokes symphony A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized. John Barrymore orchestra symphony men Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings. John Boyle O'Reilly symphony skills life What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of creation, like a symphony or a painting or a story. But with different tools. John Carpenter symphony sound feelings The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything. John Millington Synge symphony writing drama Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies. Jon Krakauer symphony views writing Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations. Jonathan Tropper symphony loneliness play Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life. Joseph B. Wirthlin symphony sound beautiful A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion. Joyce Cary destiny greatness symphony There are moments in a woman's life when her heart flips in her chest, when the world suddenly seems uncommonly pink and perfect, when a symphony can be heard in the tinkle of a doorbell. Julia Quinn symphony perfect heart «23456789101112»