Orchestra Quotes · Page 9

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

— James Levine

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

— Walt Disney

“Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here.

— Eugene Ormandy

I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.

— Gustavo Dudamel

You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.

— Adam Mickiewicz

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

— McCoy Tyner

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

— Eugene Ormandy

What a gift it would be if every child in the country could hear a professional orchestra at least once.

— Lenny Henry

An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.

— Daniel Barenboim

Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we…

— Adam Schiff

Nothing can grab you by the throat - or heart or soul - like an orchestra. It's undeniably the most engaging and…

— Michael Giacchino

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect,…

— Charles Hazlewood

I have recorded with a 60-piece orchestra, and it gives me satisfaction to have done an album entirely with acoustic instruments.

— Santhosh Narayanan

“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

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

If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so…

— Jools Holland

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly…

— Randy Newman

I am lucky to have the greatest band and when you add a symphony orchestra to the mix it brings all of…

— Olivia Newton-John

Composer” is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes…

— Anonymous

Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away…

— Zubin Mehta

I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel.…

— Jonny Greenwood

It wasn't like we cut songs out; we cut bits of songs, bits of action or bits of whatever. So we would…

— Eric Fellner

Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

— Gustavo Dudamel

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

— Bernard Williams

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

— Skitch Henderson

The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

— James Crook

Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

— Eugene Ormandy

One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist.

— Bronislaw Huberman

I always feel I do it too slow, but then others do it faster.

— Eugene Ormandy

The piano is an orchestra with 88… things, you know

— Vladimir Horowitz

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

— Nicholas Meyer

The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz -…

— Lee Morgan

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

— Edmund Wilson

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.

— Gustavo Dudamel

I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor…

— Joshua Bell

I have sat in with the Burbank Philharmonic and the Topanga Orchestra when they need someone if someone gets sick or something.

— Torrey DeVitto

“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

It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful…

— Tessanne Chin