What a gift it would be if every child in the country could hear a professional orchestra at least once. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good,… — Howard Keel Copy Share Image
There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I feel choir just has a great sense of power when used with an orchestra, or even by itself. — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with. — Keith Emerson Copy Share Image
My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument. — McCoy Tyner Copy Share Image
...Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really… — King Krule Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra. — Leila Josefowicz Copy Share Image
The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a… — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
