And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The conductor must make it possible to eliminate himself in the music. If the orchestra feels him doing that, then everything will… — Giuseppe Sinopoli Copy Share Image
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The musical training taught me to focus my mind, before playing in an orchestra taught me how to truly concentrate. If you… — Alastair Cook Copy Share Image
Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good,… — Barbara Cook 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
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
And he [Louis Brandeis] talks to his young acolyte, Horace Kallen, who wrote this beautiful book called Cultural Pluralism, and he comes… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
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Even if I was playing the keyboard in an orchestra, or a radio jockey playing music at an FM station, I would… — D. Imman 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
When you make a record, you are more relaxed, because you know if something is not good, you can repeat it. Onstage,… — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music… — Trevor Horn Copy Share Image
I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone's going to declare me a native. I love the food.… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra. — Paul Bocuse Copy Share Image
Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the… — Brian May Copy Share Image
Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
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We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
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I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra. — Max Martin Copy Share Image
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I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track,… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
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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
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I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
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