Orchestra Quotes by Eugene Ormandy · Page 2

Did you play? It sounded very good.

— Eugene Ormandy

There is a number missing. I can see it.

— Eugene Ormandy

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

— Eugene Ormandy

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

— Eugene Ormandy

Something went wrong. It was correct when I studied it.

— Eugene Ormandy

We have to play it longer because there are no numbers or letters.

— Eugene Ormandy

It's hot as hell as can be.

— Eugene Ormandy

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

— Eugene Ormandy

I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

— Eugene Ormandy

He was listening so I don't remember.

— Eugene Ormandy

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

— Eugene Ormandy

Start three bars before something.

— Eugene Ormandy

Brass, stay down all summer.

— Eugene Ormandy

I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud.

— Eugene Ormandy

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

— Eugene Ormandy

That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday.

— Eugene Ormandy

Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.

— Eugene Ormandy

Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play…

— Eugene Ormandy

That's the way it was every time I studied it.

— Eugene Ormandy

Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.

— Eugene Ormandy

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

— Eugene Ormandy

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

— Eugene Ormandy

It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.

— Eugene Ormandy

It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.

— Eugene Ormandy

During the rests - pray.

— Eugene Ormandy