I love the sound of snow... You can hear it even if you are only standing on a balcony. [The sound] is… — Claudio Abbado Copy Share Image
Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything,… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my… — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
Existence cares. When I say God cares I mean that existence cares for you, it is not indifferent. Let this be the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity… — Elizabeth Price Copy Share Image
It was a huge honour to play at the Palladium with the BBC Concert Orchestra. — Conchita Wurst Copy Share Image
I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios. — Skitch Henderson 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
I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist… — Serj Tankian 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
I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc… — Dave Bidini Copy Share Image
Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of… — Laurie Anderson 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
I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies,… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
