Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joshua Bell

Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Had Beethoven been able to carry out all his plans to fruition, then, for example, today we would have his opera Macbeth, a Faust, and many others. He would have contracted himself to write a whole series of operas.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin King

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O'Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to - I hated women pop singers.

Kurt Masur

I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did.

Charles Hazlewood

I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.

Daniel Barenboim

In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

Evan Peters

I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It's fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it soothing.

J. J. Johnson

Players, Sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint-stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs

O. J. Simpson

Players are creatures of habit and will revert back to some of the instinctive things they do, so you have to be prepared, I think, to be killing off 10-12 penalties a game and getting 10 or 12 power plays. You do the math.

Bhagavad Gita

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

Eoin Colfer

I can invent my own creatures and give them their own powers. It was great fun.

Eoin Colfer

I can invent my own creatures and give them their own powers

Sonya Hartnett

I mostly wrote 'Thursday's Child' to explore the idea of a wild child - a creature who lived much as humans used to live, when our needs were simple and our worlds were small.

Ken Ham

The Creation Museum uses fossils to present evidence that there was a global catastrophe, Noah's Flood, that killed and preserved the remains of creatures all over the earth.

Al Michaels

I feel like I'm a creature of Monday night. I'm home and I'm staying home,

Stephen Sommers

Frankenstein's monster is so iconographic, so my creature designers spent many, many months designing him. I said, 'OK, he has to have a flat head, blots on his neck and Doc Martens on his feet, but other that - we can play with him'.

Dick Ebersol

I was just swept away with how that sounded. It just rolls off your mouth.

Frank Molinaro

That was a tough loss. But no excuses. Now we just have to take this win and try to keep rolling through the Shore Conference.

Derek Lowe

I think it's tough for everybody. We can't just go out there and roll over and die. ... To see where we are right now is very disappointing.

Tiger Woods

I don't feel like I'm on a roll at all,

Capt. Ball

If someone's challenging you, you let it roll off.

Rob Kurz

We're on a roll right now. We can't wait to play another game.

Kelly Hawthorne

We are on a roll right now. We just want to keep it going.

Alex O'Loughlin

I've always loved, as an Aussie, comedy is part of my life. My friends and I are always ribbing each other and that's how we get through the days. When it comes to cameras rolling and getting that timing right, the only way to do it and do it well is to throw yourself into it.

Dwight Schultz

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

Aaron Copland

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Sharon Long

Some of it will go to have the Tupelo Symphony back with us this year.

Eduard Hanslick

So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

Edward Abbey

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

Edward Abbey

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

Edward Abbey

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

Atul Gawande

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

Aleister Crowley

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Alfred Schnittke

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

Richard Codey

Well, at least it was until Aug. 12, 2004.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Lofa Tatupu

I won't even think about it until I get there.

Corey Brewer

I won't know what everyone is going to do until I guess, a week from now.

Ichiro Suzuki

I won't know until I wake up (today).

Enid Goldstein

I was up until 1 a.m. (Monday) cleaning.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.