We've found 11 quotes for 'symphony' (0.209 seconds):
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S & M: Metallica with Michael Kamen Conducting the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (1999)
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"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it." »H. E. Luccock
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"A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized." »John Barrymore
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"Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it, it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony." »Andrew Schneider
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"When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll." »George Whelton
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"When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums." »Hunter S. Thompson
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"You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond." »Andrew Schneider
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"No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them." »Alan B. Watts
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"Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
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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 study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony." »William Ellery Channing
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