I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra. — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast… — Bobby Vinton Copy Share Image
I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I… — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
If the orchestra's not enjoying itself, the concerto will not succeed, with the players confined to using half an inch of bow. — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. — George Szell Copy Share Image
“Heaven is all around us. All we need is perception; to extol the melodies of Nature's orchestra.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
I don't want the World Dream Orchestra to be like a dessert whose taste is instantly forgotten as soon as you leave… — Joe Hisaishi Copy Share Image
It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't… — Jon Brion Copy Share Image
The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra. — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a… — John Carney Copy Share Image
If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel.… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
I tried to bring in the live orchestra like Bjork does. I love the feeling that that music gives me when I… — Willa Ford Copy Share Image
And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
On stage, I'm always nervous, but there is so much adrenalin, too. It's strange because I have to turn my back on… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
When you listen to a symphony orchestra, and the basses don't - there's no bass part, there's not that much depth. That's… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I got to perform the [Jaques] Ibert Concertino Da Camera with a brilliant pianist at school named Chunga. I got to perform… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come… — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
If you're playing live, I like to think of the ensemble, whether it's the duet or a forty piece orchestra, as one… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
“To participate, then, in the pomp of the orchestra, in the full scintillation thereof, was in the highest degree thrilling. Is this… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
'Jigarthanda' will be the first in the Kannada industry to do this type of an experiment. All these days we use to… — Arjun Janya Copy Share Image
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public,… — Lorin Maazel Copy Share Image
I worked with Jack Nitzsche for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' and we'd booked a symphony orchestra. He dismissed them and… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
I remember seeing Tony Bennett on television. He was the only guy in the orchestra who was wearing a white tux, and… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
If an ensemble - I don't care if it's a duet or a forty-piece orchestra - the musicians, the two of them… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
It is when music is added that a film can come to life for a director. A live orchestra, playing the score… — Robert Paul Wolff Copy Share Image
It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can… — James Levine Copy Share Image
Performing the American Music Awards and having Harrison Ford introduce you behind the John Williams orchestra for Star Wars, and then Meghan… — Kevin Olusola Copy Share Image
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