Quotes About Symphonic Music

#1. In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

David Amram

#2. I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.

Walter Murch

#3. Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

Sun Ra

#4. I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.

Billy Sheehan

#5. There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.

Carlisle Floyd

#6. The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

Richard Wagner

#7. The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

Agnes Obel

#8. Do you think chance is really just the logic of God?

Georges Bernanos

#9. To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty even though I might be utterly engulfed in the embrace of a million marvelous blessings.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. As for the symphonic activities ... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.

Chuck Mangione

#11. Own your disappointment, acknowledge it for what it is, and move on.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. Either way, the vulnerable human ego is protected. Protected from the corrupting influence of praise. Protected from the corrosive effects of shame.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

John Locke

#14. I'm going to show you how great I am!

Muhammad Ali

#15. I think she by this point has learned that Stark's not specifically responsible for her parents' death - that it's more something that has to do with him stopping ... I think there's even a reference to him stopping his selling of weapons because they cause damage.

Elizabeth Olsen

#16. While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the best science often emerges from situations where results carefully obtained do not fit within the accepted paradigms.

Stanley B. Prusiner

#17. She told me once there is a part of her in everyone, though Neil believes I'm more Delirium than Tori, and Death taught me to accept that, you know, wear your butterflies with pride.

Tori Amos

#18. For every sad thing you think of, you should think of three happy things to chase it away.

Zoe Sugg

#19. We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra.

Kane Freeman

#20. I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

Richard Flanagan

#21. Nobody can take your faith away form you. Faith is something you have to lose for yourself.

Christina Engela

#22. Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

Michel De Montaigne

#23. One hour of love has a whole life in it.

Honore De Balzac

#24. Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form, all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music.

Michael Jackson

#25. I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.

Anne Enright

#26. Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.

Terry Riley