Andre Breton Quotes

The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

My favorite song of ours is 'Dance The Night Away.'

Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket.

I’ve always felt that night doesn’t fall. Night rises.

Composer” is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra is going to play.” This is called composing. But last night, the Composer was not muttering. He was not humming. He was not moving, or even breathing. This is called decomposing.

The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

My son plays guitar, and he's been at the Kennedy Center.

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

If I had something to say about my lyrics, I would say they were about different subjects concerning the darkness and the night.

Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied.

I didn't want the band to end, it was as simple as that.

This is one of my favorite things to do, working with a symphonic accompaniment, because I don't sing - and this is as close as I will come to singing.

I would love to bring the children from my foundation Sinfonia por el Peru to play with some of the best musicians in the world.

Every week we have a concert, what we are performing is my favorite music in the world.

Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

Did you play? It sounded very good.

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.