Quotes about Orchestra

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. Votes: 5

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra. Votes: 3

My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it. Votes: 3

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth. Votes: 3

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. Votes: 3

An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place. Votes: 3

I have sat in with the Burbank Philharmonic and the Topanga Orchestra when they need someone if someone gets sick or something. Votes: 3

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums. Votes: 3

Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations. Votes: 3

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. Votes: 3

The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly. Votes: 3

I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not. Votes: 3

Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it. Votes: 3

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life. Votes: 3

I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible. Votes: 3

...Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our delight and satisfaction, and has availed himself with distinction. Votes: 3

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score. Votes: 3

The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc to lap, a many-legged beast trundling with joy and vision. Votes: 3

My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication. Votes: 3

American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings. Votes: 3

When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers. Votes: 3

Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself. Votes: 3

I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone's going to declare me a native. I love the food. I love the music. I serve on the board of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. Votes: 3

I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras. Votes: 3

In the restaurant business, as opposed to the theater, center orchestra is an 8 P. M. reservation. Orchestra on the side is 7 or 8:30. Mezzanine is 6 and 9. But people don't take it personally when they call the theater and can't get what they want. Votes: 3

Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable from it in the mind of its creator and native to it from the hour of its birth. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a piano teacher and a painter, so it was kind of a creative environment, and it was kind of in my DNA. Votes: 3

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world. Votes: 3

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world. Votes: 3

I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was. Votes: 3

I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid passion. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment sound great in the Albert Hall, and the Glyndebourne cast is fabulous. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

He was listening so I don't remember. Votes: 2

Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult. Votes: 2

Watch me closely - only one can spoil it. Votes: 2

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect. Votes: 2

Don't think you are looking at me because you are not. Votes: 2

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world. Votes: 2

We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow. Votes: 2

It has no rhythm, but it will because it's so much faster. Votes: 2

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. Votes: 2

I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud. Votes: 2

We have to play it longer because there are no numbers or letters. Votes: 2

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit. Votes: 2

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. Votes: 2

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas. Votes: 2

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character. Votes: 2

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is. Votes: 2

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed. Votes: 2

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. Votes: 2

There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. Votes: 2

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. Votes: 2

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it. Votes: 2

Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across. Votes: 2

From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them, electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting. Votes: 2

It is when music is added that a film can come to life for a director. A live orchestra, playing the score as a conductor watches the film on a huge screen, often gives a fimmaker the first real glimpse of his soon-to-be-completed work. That's where the magic is. Votes: 2

If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra. Votes: 1

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. Votes: 1

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers. Votes: 1

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? Votes: 1

The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful. Votes: 1

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time. Votes: 1

Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he gives us. Votes: 1

I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them. Votes: 1

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes. Votes: 1

The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and adds to the complex beauty of the symphony. Votes: 1

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending. Votes: 1

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? Votes: 1

Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music. Votes: 1

The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex. Votes: 1

I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music. Votes: 1

My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time. Votes: 1

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine. Votes: 1

The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie... keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies - it soars in a way that's really magical. Votes: 1

When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret. Votes: 1

I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands. It's very old and traditional, but then, so is an orchestra and so is a string section. Votes: 1

I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band. Votes: 1

My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass. Votes: 1

The guitar is an orchestra in itself. Votes: 0

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra. Votes: 0

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra Votes: 0

I never thought the orchestra should be big. Votes: 0

I played cello in my high school orchestra. Votes: 0

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster. Votes: 0

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. Votes: 0

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra. Votes: 0

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30. Votes: 0

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know Votes: 0

I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself! Votes: 0

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice. Votes: 0

Aromatherapy without massage is like an orchestra without a conductor Votes: 0

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments. Votes: 0

You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies. Votes: 0

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra. Votes: 0

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach. Votes: 0

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin. Votes: 0

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community. Votes: 0

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. Votes: 0

In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist. Votes: 0

In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it Votes: 0

Destiny is that grand orchestra on whose melodies dance steps of our life. Votes: 0

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem. Votes: 0

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do. Votes: 0

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. Votes: 0

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor. Votes: 0

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit. Votes: 0

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session. Votes: 0

For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony, Votes: 0

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music. Votes: 0

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest. Votes: 0

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest Votes: 0

In order to lead the orchestra, you must first turn your back to the crowd. Votes: 0

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra. Votes: 0

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around. Votes: 0

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. Votes: 0

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing Votes: 0

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra Votes: 0

Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job. Votes: 0

One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist. Votes: 0

We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra. Votes: 0

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios. Votes: 0

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience. Votes: 0

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play. Votes: 0

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit. Votes: 0

For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life. Votes: 0

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much. Votes: 0

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra. Votes: 0

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument. Votes: 0

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. Votes: 0

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor. Votes: 0

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. Votes: 0

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra. Votes: 0

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra. Votes: 0

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra Votes: 0

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra. Votes: 0

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony. Votes: 0

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. Votes: 0

What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies. Votes: 0

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language. Votes: 0

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude. Votes: 0

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy. Votes: 0

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra. Votes: 0

Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra. Votes: 0

I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears. Votes: 0

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces. Votes: 0

My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them. Votes: 0

The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them Votes: 0

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction. Votes: 0

At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like. Votes: 0

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well. Votes: 0

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized. Votes: 0

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra. Votes: 0

To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place. Votes: 0

If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous. Votes: 0

When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra. Votes: 0

In this vast cosmic orchestra, peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music. Votes: 0

I always felt that I would become somebody outstanding, whether it was in singing, instrumental playing, orchestra conducting, or anything involving feeling. Votes: 0

I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being. Votes: 0

We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us. Votes: 0

One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument. Votes: 0

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra. Votes: 0

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway. Votes: 0

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods. Votes: 0

There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big. Votes: 0

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. Votes: 0

We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole. Votes: 0

Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble. Votes: 0

This women's orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet and gold. Votes: 0

Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality. Votes: 0

A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him. Votes: 0

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me. Votes: 0

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion? Votes: 0

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune. Votes: 0

A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60. Votes: 0

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely. Votes: 0

I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to the symphony orchestra. Votes: 0

Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad. Votes: 0

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time. Votes: 0

An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium. Votes: 0

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff. Votes: 0

Every time that I hear the orchestra tuning up, I get chills all over my body. You know, catharsis after catharsis. It's better than sex! Votes: 0

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record. Votes: 0

In many ways, I think about the possibility that there could still be a Yes in 100 or 200 years from now, just like a live symphony orchestra. Votes: 0

New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there. Votes: 0

I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra. Votes: 0

The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful enough. Votes: 0

You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology Votes: 0

We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra. Votes: 0

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line. Votes: 0

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build. Votes: 0

Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother. Votes: 0

It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't believe what was going on. Votes: 0

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change. Votes: 0

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra. Votes: 0

A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that, things have to feel natural. Votes: 0

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano. Votes: 0

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek. Votes: 0

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing. Votes: 0

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony. Votes: 0

I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible. Votes: 0

I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful. Votes: 0

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance. Votes: 0

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune. Votes: 0

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Votes: 0

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds. Votes: 0

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument. Votes: 0

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head. Votes: 0

Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night. Votes: 0

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. Votes: 0

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra. Votes: 0

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me. Votes: 0

It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful and touching with just me and my guitar. Votes: 0

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra. Votes: 0

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band. Votes: 0

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even. Votes: 0

I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow. Votes: 0

Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible. Votes: 0

The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played after the death of every member of the orchestra. Votes: 0

I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people. Votes: 0

I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation. Votes: 0

Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem. Votes: 0

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds! Votes: 0

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part. Votes: 0

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra. Votes: 0

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto. Votes: 0

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra. Votes: 0

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all. Votes: 0

It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians need to read the notes. Otherwise it will be a disaster. Votes: 0

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration. Votes: 0

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that. Votes: 0

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra. Votes: 0

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra Votes: 0

I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers. Votes: 0

Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little balls of bullshit, we could all become players in that great universal orchestra again. Votes: 0

I've always been fascinated by music and sounds. I was lucky to receive proper classical training as an orchestra player and I'm always learning as a composer, looking to create new flavors and colors. Votes: 0

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music. Votes: 0

The waters of the stream played the part of the orchestra, and the sunlight provided the dancers. Every now and then a crescendo of wind highlighted the symphony in the clearing by the creek. Votes: 0

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris. Votes: 0

It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings. Votes: 0

He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable. Votes: 0

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away. Votes: 0

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra. Votes: 0

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in. Votes: 0

I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them. Votes: 0

And your dinner for the orchestra officials." "Haven't you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to make do with what's in the fridge, Clarice. May I call you Clarice? Votes: 0

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in. Votes: 0

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students. Votes: 0

Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the thread through the maze--the soul behind the toil and the crime and longing. Votes: 0