Symphony No 7 Schubert Quotes & Sayings

The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face. — Stephen Fry

Why do you haunt me? You, like a tattoo on my tongue, like the bay leaf at the bottom of every pan. You who sprawled out beside me and sang my horoscope to a Schubert symphony, something about travel and money again, and we lay there, both of our breaths bad, both of our underwear dangling elastic, and then you turned toward me with a gaze like two matches, putting the horoscope aside, you traced my buried ribs with your index finger, lingered at my collarbone, admiring it as one might a flying buttress, murmuring: Nice clavicle. And me, too new at it and scared, not knowing what to say, whispering: You should see my ten-speed. — Lorrie Moore

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.' — Yoko Ono

I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on. — Slavoj Zizek

Possession of a friend should be with the spirit: the spirit's never absent: it sees daily whoever it likes. — Seneca.

The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard decisions as rational. If the justifications proceed properly, through recognized public institutions, and if they make sense to us, they are legitimate. — Michael Ignatieff

I record here the actions of optical nerves, of taste buds, of sensory perception. — Sylvia Plath

These are the two fundamental ways in which the spiritual journey can be approached: you can either go slowly, step-by-step, accepting all natural assistance available to you, or you can ignore all the steps and take the inward leap. — Sadhguru

So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last. — Ethel Kennedy

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips. — J. Paul Getty

But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention. It's a vivid picture and a strong warning, and the same response we'll get whenever we try to get our fulfillment from a false god - from anyone or anything apart from the one true God. — Lysa TerKeurst

Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism. — Albert Einstein

No, I don't know how to get young people to start listening to jazz again. But I do know this: Any symphony orchestra that thinks it can appeal to under-30 listeners by suggesting that they 'should' like Schubert and Stravinsky has already lost the battle. — Terry Teachout

As humans, we don't know what we should do. We don't have those instincts like God has given animals. We have to see to know where we are going. It is just a natural human emotion to look for people to emulate. — Tony Dungy

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect. — Roberto Cavalli