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We're a symphony
our limbs and lips and skin making up the instruments, working together to create a beautiful piece of music.
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I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
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No one can whistle a symphony.
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You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.
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I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] ... You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.
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Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
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Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.
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You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.
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At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.
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A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.
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We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.
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The melody of music!
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A Mozart symphony is very much like a Pixar movie - in the sense that Pixar movies are hugely successful because they operate on several levels at the same time.
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Late in the afternoon Solomon, Beethoven,
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Mozart is sweet sunshine.
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No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.
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Musical myths speak with authority about our society, its fragility, its strengths, its desires, and its limits. Music becomes a wise version of the utopian messenger, pleasing us with his account of an ideal land but also warning us, in his tones, of all the dangers.
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We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.
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If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.
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So I cradle this average violin that knows
Only forgotten showtunes, but argues
The possibility of free declamation anchored
To a dull refrain ...
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Music is the poetry of the air.
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Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.
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The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
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Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.
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For him, that's what battle is. A Symphony.
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May night continue to fall upon the orchestra
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Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty.
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And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.
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In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite.
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When the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in.
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I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.
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Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality.
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Intoxicating perfumes, musky body scents mingle... blindfolding you, I orchestrate my symphony.
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Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.
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Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!
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Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast
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But to hear Mozart in a bombed city: how much more beautiful it sounds, as if it were composed to somehow soothe the ruins, to promise a wiser future rising from the rubble.
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Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.
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The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.
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U201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
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When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience.
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Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our cultural life, but also a message from higher worlds, raising and urging us on by it's reminders of our own eternal origins.
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I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man. I will endeavour to meet this obligation through music, since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries.
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Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.
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Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life.
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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.
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Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
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To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
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Since its beginnings, Western music is bound, by an insurmountable convention, to the need to express subjectivity. It stands against the harsh sound of the outside world just as the sensitive soul stands against the insensibility of the universe.
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Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.
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Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel so simple and private that none of us can plumb its deepest secrets.
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A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.
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Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.
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A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.
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Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then.
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All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.
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Her laughter was my favorite symphony.
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When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance.
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What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.
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Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.
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In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.
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The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.
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O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.
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At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all at once, only its own part. Just like life. Each person was like a line of music, but nobody knew what the symphony sounded like. Only the conductor had the whole score.
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Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end,
full of new paths to discover,
where mystery remains eternal
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Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.
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Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.
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Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.
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Music is the fragrance of the universe.
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Her voice sounded like a symphony after years of being denied any music
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With people increasingly faced with turmoil, uncertainty and crisis,
I wanted to create music that uplifts the listener and offers a sense of hope to prevail.
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
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Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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Music is poetry in motion.
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Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
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The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.
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There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
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When we are transported either by Mozart or Glenn Miller, we find ourselves in the presence of the ineffable, for which all words are so inadequate that to attempt to describe it, even with effusive praise and words of perfect beauty, is to engage in blasphemy.
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Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
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I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.
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Mozart is the incarnation of music.
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Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.
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Profound music leads us beyond language ... to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.
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Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")
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Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.
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The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.
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What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.
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I love listening to classical music.
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
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I played classical as a kid.
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all this Beethoven and rain
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We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it's a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
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Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest ... my blood ... my compass ... my love ...
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The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.
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In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.
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Richard Wagner once declared that civilization disappears before music like mist before the sun. he never dreamed that one day, for its part, music would disappear before civilization, before democracy, like mist before the sun.
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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.