Famous quotes containing the words symphony, flat, tchaikovsky and/or write:
“The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man—that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense—has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Roll over, Beethoven,
And tell Tchaikovsky the news.”
—Chuck Berry (b. 1926)
“Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)