“When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please" and he further claimed that more was to be gained by watching the sun rise than by listening to the Pastoral Symphony. Although such remarks were intended to shock, they contain a core of Debussyan verity.” SaidPastSunListeningPleaseCoreShockProfessorsRemarksSymphonyPuzzledSun RiseDebussy Author:Claude Debussy
“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 to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside; they're on the premises, all the time.” ThinkingWayNeedsHelpingWalksStreetsListeningCatLondonHorribleProportionDisorderSymphonyPremisesBarbariansDiscord Author:Aldous Huxley
“You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.” PeopleHumansPlayFilmYoungListeningBalletSymphonyTennesseeGreat Experiences Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov
“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.” IfsThinkingKnowsHelpingLostSilenceListeningFinalsHearingTunesExposureSymphonyAdagio Author:Andrew Schneider
“You know how it is in the symphony when you are listening to the symphony, the last notes die away, and there's often a beat of silence in the auditorium before the applause begins. It's a very full and pregnant silence. Now theology should bring us to live into that silence, into that pregnant pause.” KnowsShouldLastsDiesSilenceKnow HowListeningBeatsNotesTheologyPregnantPausesSymphonyApplauseAuditoriums Author:Karen Armstrong