Vienna Philharmonic Quotes

#1. From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

Bernard Arnault

#2. Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.

Edward Abbey

#3. To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

Robertson Davies

#4. Some members of the Vienna Philharmonic convinced me to try Bruckner, which I have never done before. And that was interesting to me to have this experience with this orchestra, which knows the repertoire very well, and to be confronted with this knowledge, and to learn from them.

Pierre Boulez

#5. The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.

Stephen Fry

#6. Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Thomas Hardy

#7. A son of a Jedi Knight? I thought the Jedi weren't allowed such relationships."
That wrung an half ironic grin out of me. "Guess I'm not allowed, then.

Kevin Hearne

#8. The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.

C. Lloyd Morgan

#9. I want to have roles in English.

Paz Vega

#10. I privately say to you, old friend ... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

J.D. Salinger

#11. I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

Anjelica Huston

#12. If we can go some way to creating a vibrant anaerobic digestion industry here in the U.K., we will be reaching our goals both in terms of economics and the environment.

Jacob Rothschild

#13. In the midst of such uncertainty, I cling not to what I know, but what I feel.

Heidi Julavits

#14. If he doesn't give you the same feelings you get when the pizza guy arrives, he's probably not worth it.

Michael Clifford

#15. There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.

Peter Ackroyd

#16. Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

Angela Carter