Orchestra Quotes · Page 14

I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

— Eugene Ormandy

Composer” is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes…

— Anonymous

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

— Elliott Carter

I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to…

— Gerry Mulligan

To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.

— Jimmy Durante

Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where…

— Phillip C. Schlechty

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

— Billie Holiday

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.

— Barbra Streisand

“Music Doesn’t Need Interpreters and Translators”

— Ellen J. Barrier

It's a small city where I have a lot of time to think. The orchestra and I have had a chance to…

— Gustavo Dudamel

How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children?…

— Barbra Streisand

Aromatherapy without massage is like an orchestra without a conductor

— Robert Tisserand

He was listening so I don't remember.

— Eugene Ormandy

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is…

— Goran Ivanisevic

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra…

— Bobby McFerrin

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

— Eugene Ormandy

A lot of my music tends to combine electronics and orchestra.

— Johann Johannsson

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing

— Gerry Mulligan

When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted…

— Mark Lawrenson

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect,…

— Charles Hazlewood

Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever…

— Ray Bradbury

Start three bars before something.

— Eugene Ormandy

I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists, but I don't have a pianist or…

— Manuel Pellegrini

The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears…

— Terry Pratchett

Brass, stay down all summer.

— Eugene Ormandy