I heard Joby Talbot's Hovercraft piece for orchestra and felt its immediate physical impact - visceral, unsettling, hungry and direct. These short… — Wayne McGregor Copy Share Image
A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think… — David Cerone Copy Share Image
I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies. — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we… — James Levine Copy Share Image
I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was… — R. Carlos Nakai Copy Share Image
The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
By the end of Pop's life I wanted to give something back and when I came on board as his musical director… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
And your dinner for the orchestra officials." "Haven't you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we… — James Levine Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
