If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous. — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money,… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
I'm happy to have interns at The Weekly Standard and happy to have readers of The Weekly Standard, but if you all… — William Kristol 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
My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
In order to lead the orchestra, you must first turn your back to the crowd. — Mike Mentzer Copy Share Image
You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. — Navjot Singh Sidhu 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
Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. — George Szell 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
He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying… — Robert Ripley 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
In 'Secret Life of Pets,' it's a huge orchestra - really, really big. — Alexandre Desplat 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
My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it. — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play. — Herbert von Karajan Copy Share Image
That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
“Fresh proof of the risks you run in writing about players, and of the advisability of not standing to leeward of their… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
