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My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played… — Louis Prima Copy Share Image
I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
The musical training taught me to focus my mind, before playing in an orchestra taught me how to truly concentrate. If you… — Alastair Cook Copy Share Image
Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it.… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
There's always that possibility. But, it would take a hell of a lot of work. Because unlike a movie where you just… — Eric Fellner Copy Share Image
The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by music and sounds. I was lucky to receive proper classical training as an orchestra player and I'm… — Lior Ron Copy Share Image
The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc… — Dave Bidini Copy Share Image
Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Max Lucado says that 'A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.' That is true… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
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There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
I like the power and versatility of a big band and how an orchestra can vary the dynamics from very loud to… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that,… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
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The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
When managers overdo micromanaging of others, they probably hired the wrong people or failed to give them a clear idea of what… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity… — Elizabeth Price Copy Share Image
[conductor Eugene Ormandy introduces Warfield to the audience in an unintentionally humorous way:] With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with… — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
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I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm… — Tom Fontana Copy Share Image
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on… — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
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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
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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
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