Orchestra Quotes · Page 4

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

“Music Doesn’t Need Interpreters and Translators”

— Ellen J. Barrier

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

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— Jane Lynch

We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.

— Eugene Ormandy

“The man who wishes to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”

— James Crook

Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.

— Eugene Ormandy

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

— Max Roach

For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

— Dale Carnegie

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

— James Levine

“The tuning up of an orchestra can be itself delightful, but only to those who can in some measure, however little, anticipate…

— C.S. Lewis

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.

— Paul Lansky

When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted…

— Mark Lawrenson

My education as a film composer, you can't not - if you like the orchestra like I do, if you are a…

— Alexandre Desplat

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the…

— Stephen Sondheim

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

— Desmond Tutu

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

— Howard Shore

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 studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was…

— R. Carlos Nakai

You know, we were outdoorsy types, my folks, and one of the first tapes I got, a friend gave me a cassette…

— KT Tunstall

Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not…

— Bob Dylan

Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on?…

— Brice Marden

While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon…

— Skitch Henderson

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

There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers…

— Anna Netrebko

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

True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate…

— Richard Wagner

“But that afternoon there was an orchestra playing. Music filling the brownstone. Black fingers pulling violin bows and strumming cellos, dark lips…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities.…

— Aimee Garcia

You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in…

— Michael Jackson

We have to play it longer because there are no numbers or letters.

— Eugene Ormandy

A lot of my music tends to combine electronics and orchestra.

— Johann Johannsson

For an artist, there's nothing better than working with an orchestra.

— Rene Angelil

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

— Eugene Ormandy