Symphony Quotes

• It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.409, Princeton University Press

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• A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

  Gustav Mahler

  Music, World

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• You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Play, Orchestra, Symphony Orchestras

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• Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Action, Life Is, This Life

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.157, Shambhala Publications

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• We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.

  Guy Laliberte

  Notes, Quarters, Cirque Du Soleil

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• No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

  Halford Luccock

  Life, Teamwork, Science

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• The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions.

  Masaru Emoto

  Results, Proportion, Cosmic

  Masaru Emoto (2011). “The Hidden Messages in Water”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream.

  Adam Schiff

  Beautiful, Dream, Country

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• Immerse yourself in nature’s symphony
  and let your senses burst with joy.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Joy, Senses

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• Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Artist, Trying, Together

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Spring, Perfect, Four Seasons

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• When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.

  Teddy Wilson

  Orchestra, Sound, Records

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• We must realize our own talents and, having realized, accept them; and play on them like a symphony in which all other instruments are harmonized to make a better universe.

  Jeane Dixon

  Play, Talent, Realizing

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• Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

  Desmond Tutu

  Life, Artist, Order

  Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu (2010). “Made For Goodness: And why this makes all the difference”, p.48, Random House

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• I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Running, Thinking

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• Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Children, Animal, Joy

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• Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.

  Dimitris Mitropoulos

  Humanity, Messages, Notes

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• Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

  Nelly Mazloum

  Dance, Silence, Soul

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• Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Sublime, Ears

  Howards End (1910) ch. 5

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• Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you.

  Max Lucado

  Made, Mona Lisa, Fifth

  Max Lucado (2011). “Cure for the Common Life”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”

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• In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the "Mind of God" is cosmic music resonating in 11 dimensional hyperspace.

  Michio Kaku

  Play, Mind, Band

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.

  Benjamin Zander

  Tuning, Tiny, Volume

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• Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

  David Ives

  Writing, Play, Theatre

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