Orchestra Quotes · Page 16

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

— Sarah Caldwell

There was a time, from 1935-1946, when teenagers and young adults danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and…

— Scott Yanow

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

— Howard Shore

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

— Edmund Wilson

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

— John Barrymore

I have recorded with a 60-piece orchestra, and it gives me satisfaction to have done an album entirely with acoustic instruments.

— Santhosh Narayanan

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

— Bette Midler

A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Eugene Ormandy

In western classical music with an orchestra, you focus the orchestra on melodies and harmony. In African music, the biggest focus is…

— Ludwig Goransson

I miss singing with an orchestra because that's the most uplifting thing that I ever knew. It is just such a fabulous…

— Julie Andrews

Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The…

— Linda Hamilton

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

— Olivia Newton-John

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take…

— James Laughlin

[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those…

— Bjork

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a…

— Julie Harris

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra…

— Leon Theremin

I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something…

— Jonny Greenwood

I grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty…

— Helen Keller

I wanted to do 'Manzanar' because I'd never done anything like it before. The spoken word there is between a drama and…

— John Cho

“Jess Pepper's review of the Avalon Strings: 'In a land so very civilized and modern as ours, it is unpopular to suggest…

— Bailey Bristol

As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson…

— Wynton Marsalis

Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some…

— Nobuo Uematsu

They don't encourage quality today. When I was coming along, Columbia Records would sit with you and assume it would take two…

— Ramsey Lewis