I love huge dramatic songs with ridiculously big…

I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to…

— Mike Shinoda

When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.

— Jeremy Bolt

What I love about film music is the variety. On one movie, you might be asked to do a completely electronic score, and then…

— Ramin Djawadi

Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of…

— Brian Eno

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

— Elvis Costello

In superficial terms, to have an orchestral career is to be better than others, or at least to be chosen over others on that…

— Stephen Hough

For some reason, as a kid, I felt outwardly embarrassed to say that I liked rock music. I don't know where that came from.…

— Michael Giacchino

It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing…

— Howard Jacobson

“The orchestral music is glorious but I wish they'd stop playing for a minute: it's very hard to eavesdrop properly over a grand piano…

— Holly Smale

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

— Tod Machover

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as…

— Tony Williams

I was classically trained. But more than just the fact that I play violin, there's a lot of classical elements in the way I…

— Lindsey Stirling

I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing,…

— Wendy Carlos

One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done…

— John Kinsella

I feel at home in an orchestral score.

— Placido Domingo