88 Quotes About Symphony

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.