Quotes About Rhapsody

#1. Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood. - Author: Joni Mitchell

#2. The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water ... I don't think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky ... but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter. - Author: Leonard Bernstein

#3. This is the fiction that I'm referring to as rhapsody, this stitching of mimetic representation, oneiric imagery, ludic rules, allegoric morals, satiric critique and diegetic story into complex quiltings of narrative. - Author: Hal Duncan

#4. My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. - Author: Sergei Prokofiev

#5. I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine. - Author: Jencarlos Canela

#6. The clocks had nothing to do with time but were merely instruments, the clicking and ticking of silver and gold and bronze and pinchbeck arrows, a droll and slapstick rhapsody of lies. - Author: Tabitha King

#7. In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine. - Author: Richie Gerber

#8. Should I get my violin out? I feel this little chat of yours needs an accompanying rhapsody. - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. That does not surprise me,' Annie said and once again hung up the phone thinking that she had chosen to surround herself with people who were, for lack of a better term, retarded. - Author: Kevin Wilson

#10. My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself. - Author: Mem Fox

#11. What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous. - Author: Brian Greene

#12. I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong. - Author: Faith Hill

#13. A black woman's body was never hers alone. - Author: Fannie Lou Hamer

#14. The wind changes direction within an instant and contains within it knowledge that can take away a life or spare it, as fate dictates. The wind likes you and fate will be kind, you just have to have hope. - Author: Tami Egonu - A Rhapsody Of Dream

#15. What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History. - Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

#16. But five minutes later the five-hundred-year-old Roman chapel was filled to the rafters with the soaring sounds of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody, - Author: Tiffany Reisz

#17. Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. - Author: Claudia Gray

#18. Why do you always assume the worst? - Author: E.L. James

#19. As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York. - Author: Moby

#20. Every dream has a deadline.
Then a good dreamer must ignore the deadline. - Author: Mahir Pradana

#21. Ruby describes the decorations at the banquet. 'It was like little gardens of rhapsody on every table. It was divine. - Author: Lynne Branard

#22. Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears. - Author: Casey Abrams

#23. I found the book, Qur'an,] in spite of "the contradictions, the absurdities, the anachronisms", "rhapsody, without connection, without order, and without art. - Author: Voltaire

#24. Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired. - Author: Brian Wilson

#25. People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. - Author: Tim Tebow

#26. I was born Katie O'Reilly," she began. "Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels." Titanic Rhapsody - Author: Jina Bacarr

#27. Katie shook her head in dismay. "I thought being poor was the worst thing that could happen to a girl."
"No, Katie," the countess said in a clear voice. "The worst thing is to be in love with one man and have to marry another."
Katie O'Reilly to the Countess of Marbury in "Titanic Rhapsody - Author: Jina Bacarr

#28. I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can play like that, why can't I?' - Author: Lang Lang

#29. It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are. - Author: Wallace Stevens

#30. It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired. - Author: George Gershwin

#31. I had never been more alone than I was in my admiration for the real killer's work. The very body parts seemed to sing to me, a rhapsody of bloodless wonder that lightened my heart and filled my veins with an intoxicating sense of awe. - Author: Dexter Morgan

#32. As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of needing to be onstage, in costume, in character; that is utterly not interesting to me. - Author: Jason Robert Brown

#33. Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and I'm still discussing that with the Almighty, it will only be to save my arse." Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhapsody - Author: Jina Bacarr

#34. To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals. - Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#35. My absolute favorite pieces are 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'Begin the Beguine.' I play these when I am working. - Author: Wilbur Smith