String Orchestra Quotes

#1. The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

Harry Chapin

#2. Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

Rachel Kushner

#3. Every symphony, for example, is a sonata for orchestra; every string quartet is a sonata for four strings; every concerto a sonata for a solo instrument and orchestra.

Aaron Copland

#4. There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.

John Philip Sousa

#5. The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

David Hume

#6. Every time you win a cup it's special, but it's a dream come true when it happens at a club where you started in the youth set-up, surrounded by friends who formed an incredible generation of players.

Clarence Seedorf

#7. Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

Jeremy Bentham

#8. So really, this was the most guarded pool in the entire state of Alabama. Maybe the most guarded pool in the entire country... but no one had the decency to even drown a little bit.
Honestly.

Rachel Hawkins

#9. But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

Dean Koontz

#10. I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.

Joshua Bell

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

Kane Freeman

#12. There was no girls' cross-country team at our high school, since cross-country courses were two or three miles long, and, at that distance, a girl's uterus could fall out.

Gretchen Reynolds

#13. I never fear my opponent, for me he only represents a new challenge to conquer.

Lyoto Machida

#14. What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

Nathaniel Branden

#15. The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

Andres Segovia

#16. I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.

Barbra Streisand

#17. Caitlin, I was born to worry about you.

Susan Wiggs

#18. When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.

Malcolm Gladwell

#19. Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.

St. Jerome

#20. Always embrace the common humanity that lies at the heart of us all.

Dalai Lama