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The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions.Collection: Symphony
The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.Collection: Symphony
My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.Collection: Symphony
I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.Collection: Symphony
No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.Collection: Symphony
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.Collection: Symphony
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.Collection: Symphony
So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.Collection: Symphony
A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.Collection: Symphony
I'm familiar to people. They feel comfortable with me. I started in live television. I perform live all the time. I sing with the piano. I sing with a symphony. I can sit and ask questions. I can listen. I'm very comfortable in most situations.Collection: Symphony
Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.Collection: Symphony
God is able to cause all things people do to us, even the bad things, to work together for our good (Rom. 8:28). That isn't to say that all things are good, but that God can orchestrate the evil into a symphony of glory.Collection: Symphony
You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.Collection: Symphony
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.Collection: Symphony
Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.Collection: Symphony
In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.Collection: Symphony
If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in “creative leaps,” no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss; everyone who could recognize a good investment strategy would be Warren Buffett.Collection: Symphony
The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.Collection: Symphony
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.Collection: Symphony
I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.Collection: Symphony
Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.Collection: Symphony
Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.Collection: Symphony
No one can whistle a symphony.Collection: Symphony
What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.Collection: Symphony
Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.Collection: Symphony
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.Collection: Symphony
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.Collection: Symphony
A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.Collection: Symphony
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.Collection: Symphony
And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.Collection: Symphony
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thingCollection: Symphony
I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.Collection: Symphony
Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.Collection: Symphony
The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.Collection: Symphony
Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.Collection: Symphony
Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand.Collection: Symphony
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.Collection: Symphony
A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.Collection: Symphony
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.Collection: Symphony
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.Collection: Symphony
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.Collection: Symphony
It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.Collection: Symphony
The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit.Collection: Symphony
I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on.Collection: Symphony
Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.Collection: Symphony
Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.Collection: Symphony
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.Collection: Symphony
Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.Collection: Symphony
Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.Collection: Symphony