88 Quotes About Symphony

  • Author Atul Gawande
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    When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

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  • Author George Gershwin
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    All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

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  • Author Glenn Gould
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    u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

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  • Author James Gray
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    Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

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  • Author Eduard Hanslick
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    So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

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  • Author Florence Henderson
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    I'm familiar to people. They feel comfortable with me. I started in live television. I perform live all the time. I sing with the piano. I sing with a symphony. I can sit and ask questions. I can listen. I'm very comfortable in most situations.

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  • Author Victor Hugo
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    The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.

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  • Author Mick Jagger
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    One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.

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