Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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 Bukowski

I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.

Edward Abbey

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

Aleister Crowley

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Alfred Schnittke

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

Dave Brubeck

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

Robert Rodriguez

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

Roger Goodell

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.

Zack Snyder

There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

Ned Vizzini

Time is a person-made concept.

Patricia A. Woertz

Ive always enjoyed seeing how things are made.

Larry Page

Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

Ken Burns

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

Mary McCormack

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

Terry Goodkind

Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.