#phonies

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies. ↗

— Tina Turner

#conversations #heaven #i #notes #symphonies

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#i #i think #own #place #symphonies

If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music. ↗

— Christo

#music #our #some #symphonies #then

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#i #i am #symphonies #way #weren

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

— Neville Marriner

#even #instruments #late #more #most

We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#because #big #commission #instrumentation #nature

The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I am, in every moment, capable of mustering the strength to survive again—or of tapping that strength in other good, productive, healthy ways. ↗

— Michele Rosenthal

#self-awareness #self-confidence #self-empowerment #trauma #traumatic-epiphonies

Gerald's look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be human. ↗

— E. Nesbit

#humor #phonies #humor

I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused to lie down and die. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#humor #humour #music #symphonies #humor

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth! ↗

— Malcolm Arnold

#am #another #been #donald #expert