88 Quotes About Symphony

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.

Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand.

I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on.