You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment,… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
I am equally comfortable conducting an orchestra or talking to a group of academics as I am on stage playing with a… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business… — Paul McCreesh 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
And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners. — Allan Kozinn Copy Share Image
Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
People get a real kick out of hearing our songs with an orchestra. It makes you feel like you're in a movie… — Cindy Wilson Copy Share Image
It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality. — Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I… — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra .… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound… — Bob Simon Copy Share Image
When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get… — Teddy Wilson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
