Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Benjamin

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

Robertson Davies

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.

Zubin Mehta

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

Yoko Ono

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

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.

Neville Marriner

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

Neville Marriner

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

Umberto Eco

The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.

Nhat Hanh

Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.

Mother Teresa

All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.

Satyajit Ray

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

Logan Lerman

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

James Howe

I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.

Brian Griese

I wouldn't be surprised if we saw them later in the year.

Ken Bacon

He (Cohen) did have tentative plans to go in June, and he has postponed any trip until some later date.

Susumu Tonegawa

Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life.

William Williams

Here it is spring againand I still a young man!I am late at my singing.

Penny Brown

Here we are months later and we're talking about the same things,

Benjamin Feingold

I think you're going to see them by mid-to late March.

Mike Mayock

I think the best-case scenario is late first round. But I'm not sure that's happening.

Dennis Quaid

I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.