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

You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always….

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day..

Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell is ….

Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels the need to speak, and I sup….

I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to the symphony orchestra..

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars..

I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet ov….

I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems….

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 ….

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician..

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 ab….

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

Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful….