The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to… — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
Actually, my first professional job was singing opera with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature.… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William Blake wrote for the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job. — John Williams Copy Share Image
Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on?… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play… — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears. — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
On Mars, where the air is spare - a hundred times less dense than on Earth - someone could hear you scream.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities.… — Aimee Garcia Copy Share Image
There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave.… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
