#symphony

When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind. In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life. ↗

— Toba Beta

#harmony #heart #inspirational #instument #life

I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#been #before #being #choir #college

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

#bird #built #call #consciousness #could

I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#bows #high #high school #i #loved

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. ↗

— David Amram

#i #jazz #last #learned #like

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#burning desire #desire #having #i #myself

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

— Gustav Mahler

#everything #like #must #symphony #world

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#dynamic #especially #into #kind #orchestra

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#first #mine #new #piece #play

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

#barriers #beautiful #breaking #brotherhood #country