Quotes About Symphony Orchestras

#1. Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.

Pete Seeger

#2. Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll?

Joan Jett

#3. Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

David Del Tredici

#4. Falling thirty-three stories wasn't nearly as frightening as falling in love.

Jill Archer

#5. I have worked with several dance companies.

Issey Miyake

#6. A life of constant victory is the result of correct thinking

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Live, don't know how long,
And die, don't know when;
Must go, don't know where;
I am astonished I am so cheerful.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#8. You kissed, Wheeler, as in the guy who just canceled his wedding to a raging she-beast?" Her

Jay Crownover

#9. You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

Neil Gaiman

#10. I have to admit, though, that Cynthia was a great organizer, but then, so were the men with whips who got the pyramids built.

Alan Bradley

#11. Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it won't hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to take it away.

Priscilla Shirer

#12. A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

John Dryden

#13. Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do ... " speech, he would answer 'ask not.'

Peggy Noonan