Orchestra Quotes · Page 7

A lot of my music tends to combine electronics and orchestra.

— Johann Johannsson

I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself!

— Kevin Brownlow

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

— Max Roach

Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.

— Eugene Ormandy

For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

— Dale Carnegie

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

— Bette Midler

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

— Artur Rodzinski

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

— Kurt Masur

I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists, but I don't have a pianist or…

— Manuel Pellegrini

The most immediately gratifying thing about my work is conducting a large orchestra. But the long range payoff is composing because you've…

— Henry Mancini

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the…

— Gunther Schuller

Every time that I hear the orchestra tuning up, I get chills all over my body. You know, catharsis after catharsis. It's…

— Rosie O'Donnell

I miss singing with an orchestra because that's the most uplifting thing that I ever knew. It is just such a fabulous…

— Julie Andrews

An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person…

— Leonard Slatkin

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take…

— James Laughlin

At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.

— Thomas Beecham

Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in…

— Michael Jackson

I feel opera is an expression of artistic excellence. To do it is expensive, as there's a requirement for an orchestra, good…

— Michael Portillo

The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients,…

— Oliver Sacks

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra…

— Leon Theremin

I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house…

— Dave Brubeck

I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member…

— Gustavo Dudamel

I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call…

— Anne Michaels

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness…

— Robert Benchley

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

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Ray Bradbury

“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

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.

— Willie Nelson

In 'Secret Life of Pets,' it's a huge orchestra - really, really big.

— Alexandre Desplat

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

— Jason Bateman

Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.

— Eugene Ormandy

I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.

— Bryan Ferry

In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

— Paul Fournel

I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.

— Eugene Ormandy

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

— Herbert von Karajan

“To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.”

— Max Lucado

I feel choir just has a great sense of power when used with an orchestra, or even by itself.

— Ramin Djawadi

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

— Eugene Ormandy