Orchestra Quotes · Page 6

Aromatherapy without massage is like an orchestra without a conductor

— Robert Tisserand

It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra.

— Andris Nelsons

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

— Zubin Mehta

Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?

— Eugene Ormandy

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

— Elliott Carter

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

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

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

— Leonard Bernstein

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

— Anonymous

Being at the show, watching people do what they do so well, hearing a full orchestra, and hearing beautiful music? There's nothing…

— Colin Donnell

Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear…

— David Ogden Stiers

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

— Dido Armstrong

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…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted…

— Mark Lawrenson

Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And…

— Andrea Bocelli

My education as a film composer, you can't not - if you like the orchestra like I do, if you are a…

— Alexandre Desplat

I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to…

— Gerry Mulligan

One of the things I love about negotiations is that you have to be able to play it like an orchestra, different…

— Susan Rice

Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to…

— Pete Seeger

The Russians were all really accommodating, and that made it really special. To be allowed in Catherine's Summer Palace...Lily [James] and I…

— James Norton

Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not…

— Bob Dylan

Because of John Williams, I began collecting all kinds of film scores. I listened to them when I fell asleep, and it…

— Michael Giacchino

Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on?…

— Brice Marden

While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon…

— Skitch Henderson

For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of…

— Gustavo Dudamel

You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Sunlight was everywhere, glittering gold off the bright green leaves of the garden. A blackcap, concealed within the foliage of a nearby…

— Kate Morton

I have had much pleasure in working with Orphei Drängar during my time as chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and…

— Neeme Jarvi

How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children?…

— Barbra Streisand

“Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing;…

— Victor Hugo

Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music…

— Billy Taylor

Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever…

— Ray Bradbury

During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini…

— James Keller

Actually, my first professional job was singing opera with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

— Brett Cooper

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

— John Goodman

No technology comes close to the effect of a live symphony orchestra.

— John de Lancie

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

— Billie Holiday

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

— Jean Sibelius

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

— Skitch Henderson

I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.

— Joe Hisaishi

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

— Eugene Ormandy