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
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
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
I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into… — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
The Mahavishnu Orchestra - when it came out, it was an explosion, completely unexpected as far as I was concerned. I was… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music… — Skitch Henderson Copy Share Image
I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
My aunt played upright bass in the Louisville Orchestra, and I was always really impressed by her musical ability. I found it… — Jim James Copy Share Image
It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would listen to anything that had a live orchestra or ensemble playing, so that covered everything from show… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play… — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying… — Robert Ripley Copy Share Image
“The unfinished symphony that is your life is built on the harmony within your orchestra that grows in number of musicians every… — Will Jelbert Copy Share Image
Through conducting, you express through your arms, through your face and even the body, what you want to tell, so the musicians… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we… — James Levine Copy Share Image
I was in the orchestra pit for 'Pippin' my freshman year. I played flute. But I only did it because I had… — Heidi Gardner Copy Share Image
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. — Andres Segovia 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
Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a… — Artur Rodzinski Copy Share Image
“When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra.” — Laura Erickson Copy Share Image
Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy. — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
I have sat in with the Burbank Philharmonic and the Topanga Orchestra when they need someone if someone gets sick or something. — Torrey DeVitto Copy Share Image
The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz -… — Lee Morgan Copy Share Image
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
I have recorded with a 60-piece orchestra, and it gives me satisfaction to have done an album entirely with acoustic instruments. — Santhosh Narayanan Copy Share Image
“The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of… — Brian May Copy Share Image
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect,… — Charles Hazlewood 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 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
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