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

  Guy Laliberte

  Notes, Quarters, Cirque Du Soleil

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

  Halford Luccock

  Life, Teamwork, Science

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Bird

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• If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Laughter, Melody

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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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• A symphony is no joke.

  Johannes Brahms

  Jokes

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• Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Musical, World

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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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• Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

  William Christopher Handy

  Song, Bird, Consciousness

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

  Robert Fripp

  Sleep, Play, Musician

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