I'm with you once more under the stars and down by the…

“But that afternoon there was an orchestra playing. Music filling the brownstone. Black fingers pulling violin bows and strumming cellos, dark lips around horns,…

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

— David Ogden Stiers

I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my…

— Laura Mvula

It is when music is added that a film can come to life for a director. A live orchestra, playing the score as a…

— Robert Paul Wolff

“The sound of your heart is a tiny orchestra playing just for me.”

— Tyler Knott

Every orchestra has its own sound.

— Simon Rattle

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

— Ramin Djawadi

I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.

— Andris Nelsons

Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa.

— Eugene Ormandy

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

— Colin Donnell

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

— Daniel Barenboim

There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you can rewrite…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good…

— Howard Keel

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

— Paul Fournel

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

— Lenny Henry