Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jane Byrne

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

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.

Eduard Hanslick

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.

Edward Abbey

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

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.

Edward Abbey

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

Atul Gawande

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

Kathleen Battle

I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.

Artur Rodzinski

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

Miriam Makeba

I was so scared. Such a big orchestra

Mark Thielen

I remember when we did the Tchaikovsky (concerto), he just flew. We weren't used to that. But when we do things like that, it makes the orchestra grow.

Pat Miller

It is extraordinary - the orchestra tells you so much about the stage and what's going on,

Christopher Young

Usually when I am approached to do a score for a horror movie, it's to attempt a repeat performance of what I did way back on 'Hellraiser' or 'Jennifer 8' - one of those really orchestral scores.

David Ogden Stiers

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

David Ogden Stiers

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Liza Frulla

All orchestras have problems, and I can see it all over Canada. We just bailed out the Winnipeg orchestra, three years ago,

Matt Zimmerman

We were at the Argonne Lab in Chicago on Monday collecting data, and by Thursday we were able to deposit two solved protein structures in the Protein Data Bank.

Mike Quigley

The people of Chicago have made it very clear that they favor sensible restrictions on gun ownership.

Buddy Guy

When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

James Young

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

Robert Bell

When you use Microsoft Outlook from the Indianapolis or Chicago office, there's no difference in performance compared to Dearborn.

Jane Byrne

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

Paul Pierce

We're still in it. Our series with Chicago is big.

Desiree Rogers

We have not really advertised Chicago internationally.

Daniel Clowes

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.