It makes me mad to hear these popular orchestras make a jammed-up comedy of a song like 'Wreck on the Highway.' It… — Hank Williams Copy Share Image
The music lovers of London and the country deserve to have something where orchestras can flourish. You have no idea how wonderful… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies,… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz -… — Lee Morgan 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
To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
Japanese orchestras are generally playing at quite a high level on the first day of rehearsal, but they don't improve very much… — Joe Hisaishi Copy Share Image
And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Ourchestra: So you haven't got a drum, just beat your belly. So I haven't got a horn-I'll play my nose. So we… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle,… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and… — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
“For a short while she considered the idea of orchestral courtesy. Certainly one should avoid giving political offence: German orchestras, of course,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
What is a career, actually? Nobody can destroy my career. Only I can destroy my career, if I am a bad conductor.… — Neeme Jarvi Copy Share Image
I actually prefer to hear small groups of instruments. Orchestras seem to lack a texture for me, or variety of texture. There's… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
There are a few great orchestras in the world, thank goodness. Although some people do put them in ranking order, it's not… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we… — James Levine Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to play with symphony orchestras - I've played with many - but it's really special in Israel because… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into… — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
You could almost write an opera about the selection of music directors for orchestras. The intrigues are really interesting, and then, at… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment,… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners. — Allan Kozinn Copy Share Image
The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to… — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money,… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff.… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
