Orchestra Quotes · Page 3

Someone came too sooner.

— Eugene Ormandy

There is a number missing. I can see it.

— Eugene Ormandy

Start three bars before something.

— Eugene Ormandy

The guitar is an orchestra in itself.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult.

— Eugene Ormandy

I need one more bass less.

— Eugene Ormandy

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

— Cecil Taylor

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

— Glenn Miller

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

— Max Lucado

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

— Eugene Ormandy

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

— Eugene Ormandy

“A dean is the conductor of an orchestra made up entirely of composers.”

— Mark William Roche

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

— Eugene Ormandy

“Music Doesn’t Need Interpreters and Translators”

— Ellen J. Barrier

I've always loved mixing Middle Eastern instruments into a classical orchestra.

— Alexandre Desplat

“The conductor of the orchestra doesn’t make a sound. His power comes from awakening possibility in others. —Benjamin Zander, conductor and coauthor…

— Malcolm Harkins

Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in…

— Eberhard Weber

The conductor of an orchestra doesnt make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

— Suman Rai

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

— Leonard Bernstein

An orchestra can add some class, a historical vibe, but I believe you can get the same emotion from pottery wheels.

— Brian Reitzell

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash…

— Fernando Pessoa

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we…

— James Levine

Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell…

— Hans Zimmer

My instrumentals ain't up for rental but come and try em and if you wanna buy em then. I supply em I…

— Kool G Rap

When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a…

— Andre Previn

If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have…

— Anonymous

I heard Joby Talbot's Hovercraft piece for orchestra and felt its immediate physical impact - visceral, unsettling, hungry and direct. These short…

— Wayne McGregor

From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with…

— John Carpenter

I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And,…

— Julia Roberts

I trust microphones, speakers and recordings less and less, and no longer buy into the idea that I can recreate at home,…

— Jonny Greenwood

Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing…

— David Berg

They don't encourage quality today. When I was coming along, Columbia Records would sit with you and assume it would take two…

— Ramsey Lewis

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;…

— Warren G. Bennis

But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and…

— Jason Graae

My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her…

— B. B. King

Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee…

— Nancy Mitford

[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those…

— Bjork

We still listen to the original lush arrangements with the orchestras.

— Jane Lynch