The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it… — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to… — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
It's a great privilege and a highlight for choir and orchestra members to perform for audiences in live concerts. — Mack Wilberg Copy Share Image
What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies. — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
“If life had background music playing your song, I've got to be honest I try to escape you but the orchestra plays… — Anberlin Copy Share Image
I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every… — Anna Meredith Copy Share Image
To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
People get a real kick out of hearing our songs with an orchestra. It makes you feel like you're in a movie… — Cindy Wilson Copy Share Image
I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William Blake wrote for the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When you make a record, you are more relaxed, because you know if something is not good, you can repeat it. Onstage,… — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to… — Nobuo Uematsu Copy Share Image
Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the… — R. Murray Schafer Copy Share Image
And he [Louis Brandeis] talks to his young acolyte, Horace Kallen, who wrote this beautiful book called Cultural Pluralism, and he comes… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me. — George Michael Copy Share Image
I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
I thought there couldn't be a better backdrop for some kind of powerful music than a big orchestra. My wish to hear… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well. — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
If you sing tight in the throat, and you sing onstage, and you have a big orchestra, it's finito. Your voice goes,… — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In this vast cosmic orchestra, peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you… — David Amram Copy Share Image
My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it. — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
“That smell mixed with the scent of getting tied up and fucked became the smell of complete release, of an orchestra connected… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place. — Jimmy Durante Copy Share Image
I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra.… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
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… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business… — Paul McCreesh Copy Share Image
Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are a few great orchestras in the world, thank goodness. Although some people do put them in ranking order, it's not… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra. — Sivamani Copy Share Image
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