Symphony Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old symphony quotes, symphony sayings, and symphony proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

A musician, if he's a messenger is like a child who hasn't been handled too many times by man, hasn't had too many fingerprints across his brain. Jimi Hendrix
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary, the music strikes more the more familiar we are with it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Maya Angelou
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. Sir Edward Elgar
There are two golden rules for an orchestra; start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. Thomas Beecham
The rose composed a symphony— / With love poured out its heart. / The other flowers in great delight / Each clamored for a part. Paul Johnson
In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden, and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. William Ellery Channing
The symphony was a great success, / Everyone called for more / No garden it seemed had ever been / So much in tune before. Paul Johnson
We don't tell ourselves, 'I'm never going to write my symphony.' Instead, we say, 'I'm going to write my symphony; I'm, going to start tomorrow.' Steven Pressfield
Whenever you're near me, I hear a symphony, a tender melody, pulling me closer. The Supremes
It would be like attending a concert where everyone in the audience was carrying a violin and hoping to get on stage at the end of the symphony to play a little tune they've been working on. Billy Collins
Classic music is the kind that we keep thinking I'll turn into a tune. Frank McKinney
A squeak heard in the orchestra / The leader draws across / The intestines of the agile cat / The tail of the noble hoss. G.T. Lanigan
Life is like a keyboard of music harmony, / It acts as you press for the symphony. / Patience is the answer to all questions. / When mindfulness is not an interrogation. Dr. Saroj Kumar Khan
Not the faces / Not the people / But the company / One by one grew so many / And all these notes / wove a majestic symphony. Danny Ballan
Each day we draft a new movement in our symphony of life; what melody will you compose today? Ken Poirot
One note does not make a symphony; one artist does not make an orchestra. Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the soul's music; all its songs are symphonies. Matshona Dhliwayo
It may be composed of broken trumpets blaring and violins stuck on the flattened fifth, but all symphonies begin in chaos. Camilla Nicole Petyn
The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless. A.E. Samaan
String theory makes sense to me because the universe is a symphony that creates harmony with the vibration of our strings. Kamand Kojouri
Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats walking along with them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside; they're on the premises, all the time. Aldous Huxley
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. Atul Gawande
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life. B.K.S. Iyengar
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. Halford Luccock
Be the song in someone's heart; be the symphony in someone's soul. Matshona Dhliwayo
The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words. Khaled Talib
The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress. H.L. Mencken