Vienna Philharmonic Quotes & Sayings

Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also. — Saint Ambrose

When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known. — Luis Walter Alvarez

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

When the ladies see an athlette walking around, they think, Well, he got the cocaine, so let's go get high with him. — Moses Malone

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. — Mikhail Bakunin

I can only take one step at a time, whether I am running or living. Today is a good day. This is my life and it's happening now. — Mina Samuels

And it was one of these observers who designed the tests and simulations carried out on Old Earth during the last three centuries of its exile in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud to better explain our species to them and measure the empathy of which we are capable. — Dan Simmons

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Man to man, my eye Kipps snorted. It was like seeing two schoolgirls squabbling over a scented pencil. You should have heard the squeals. — Jonathon Stroud

Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass. — Edward Abbey

Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin. — Eduardo Galeano

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good. — Bernard Arnault

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be. — Robertson Davies

Some members of the Vienna Philharmonic convinced me to try Bruckner, which I have never done before. And that was interesting to me to have this experience with this orchestra, which knows the repertoire very well, and to be confronted with this knowledge, and to learn from them. — Pierre Boulez

You hurt my heart with you pseudointellectual mild, flattering speech. — Rea Lidde