I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality. — Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
“The man who wishes to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” — James Crook Copy Share Image
I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general. — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we… — James Levine Copy Share Image
I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces. — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
“The tuning up of an orchestra can be itself delightful, but only to those who can in some measure, however little, anticipate… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them. — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the… — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
Being a part of the crowd with incredible musicians onstage summoning the muse and delivering that to us - doesn't matter if… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time,… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
They don't encourage quality today. When I was coming along, Columbia Records would sit with you and assume it would take two… — Ramsey Lewis 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
But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the… — Nuno Oliveira Copy Share Image
“Fresh proof of the risks you run in writing about players, and of the advisability of not standing to leeward of their… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing… — David Berg Copy Share Image
[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
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