Ari Melber
Ari Melber

Younger viewers have a very strong detector for what's real and legit and what's phony or pandering.

Arthur Godfrey
Arthur Godfrey

I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.

Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

Barbara Cook
Barbara Cook

New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

Ben Fountain
Ben Fountain

If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.

Ben Fountain
Ben Fountain

In the arsenal of the phony, the politics of God is one of the deadliest punches to the sweet spot of the American mind.

Carole Radziwill
Carole Radziwill

I'm a lot of things but not a liar or a phony, even when I know it's in my best interest to be.

Charles Hazlewood
Charles Hazlewood

I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.

Charles Hazlewood
Charles Hazlewood

I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.

Charles Hazlewood
Charles Hazlewood

It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.