The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it… — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“In this vast cosmic orchestra, peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.” — Amit Ray 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
A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that,… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Bacharach has such a brilliant ear for melody and his music has a completely timeless feel to it; I thought it would… — Michael Ball Copy Share Image
My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them. — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini… — James Keller Copy Share Image
I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The will and self are ultimately dynamic, they are their actions. This energy can be trained and directed, tuned like an orchestra.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about negotiations is that you have to be able to play it like an orchestra, different… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
When I was little, my mum would take me to see the orchestra, tell me to close my eyes and think about… — Maggie Rogers 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
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'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
“The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the right place.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz -… — Lee Morgan Copy Share Image
I sometimes like to think of God as a great symphony and the various spiritual paths as instruments in an orchestra. The… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why… — Andris Nelsons 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
The Mahavishnu Orchestra - when it came out, it was an explosion, completely unexpected as far as I was concerned. I was… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
