Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Had Beethoven been able to carry out all his plans to fruition, then, for example, today we would have his opera Macbeth, a Faust, and many others. He would have contracted himself to write a whole series of operas.

Joshua Bell

Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.

Gian Carlo Menotti

I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert or Chopin or Beethoven, though Beethoven had a very difficult time writing melody, too.

Stephen Roe

In all the Beethoven literature, it's described as lost. There are lots of alterations, changes, revisions that no one has ever seen.

Brian Greene

What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.

Andre Previn

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

Evan Peters

I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It's fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it soothing.

Satyajit Ray

As a small boy I had read about Beethoven in the Book of Knowledge, now I was listening enraptured to his sonatas and symphonies.

Ann Rice

God kills indescriminantly, and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.

Kingsley Amis

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

Eoin Colfer

I can invent my own creatures and give them their own powers

O. J. Simpson

Players are creatures of habit and will revert back to some of the instinctive things they do, so you have to be prepared, I think, to be killing off 10-12 penalties a game and getting 10 or 12 power plays. You do the math.

Pip Coburn

Investors are moving from telescopic-themed-excessive-multiple creatures to microscopic-near-term-earnings-fearing-lower-multiple folks.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin.

David Brainerd

I love to be a pilgrim and stranger in this wilderness: it seems most fit for such a poor ignorant, worthless, despised creature as I.

W. S. Gilbert

I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

Stan Johnson

You can't be a true bleacher creature drinking this kind of beer.

Derek Lowe

I think it's tough for everybody. We can't just go out there and roll over and die. ... To see where we are right now is very disappointing.

Dick Ebersol

I was just swept away with how that sounded. It just rolls off your mouth.

Tiger Woods

I don't feel like I'm on a roll at all,

O. Henry

If you're on a roll you get two or three.

Pat Gillick

In a situation, sometimes you have to roll the dice. What do we need, an outfielder or another pitcher?

Jon Huertas

I don't really like roller coasters!

Don Cassidy

You don't have to be 75 to use a rolling wire basket.

Greg Thompson

That first split hurt. He got on a roll and it was pretty much over.

Kevin Hart

Really, I don't like roller coasters.

James Gray

Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

Ludwig van Beethoven

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

Paulo Coelho

Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.

Georg Solti

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.

Johannes Brahms

A symphony is no joke.

C. S. Lewis

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

Charles Sanders Peirce

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

Charles Mingus

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

Deepak Chopra

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.

Lindy Ruff

He just doesn't feel right. Until we get him through that, he won't be skating.

Chrissie Fit

I was afraid of the dark until I was, like, 15 and slept with a nightlight.

Saku Koivu

We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Kathy Bennett

I always wanted to know what was wrong. They could never find anything wrong with her until this.

Stephen Dodd

I am just more focussed. He had got me not to give in, to keep going until the last,

London Fletcher

I really didn't know if I was going to be able to play until right before the game,

Craig Roberts

I never wanted to be an actor until about three years ago when I realised it was what I liked doing.