It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind? — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
Aromatherapy without massage is like an orchestra without a conductor — Robert Tisserand Copy Share Image
Actually, my first professional job was singing opera with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
No technology comes close to the effect of a live symphony orchestra. — John de Lancie Copy Share Image
The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Being at the show, watching people do what they do so well, hearing a full orchestra, and hearing beautiful music? There's nothing… — Colin Donnell Copy Share Image
I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras. — Dido Armstrong Copy Share Image
Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear… — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
People get a real kick out of hearing our songs with an orchestra. It makes you feel like you're in a movie… — Cindy Wilson Copy Share Image
I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every… — Anna Meredith Copy Share Image
If you sing tight in the throat, and you sing onstage, and you have a big orchestra, it's finito. Your voice goes,… — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a… — Julie Harris Copy Share Image
It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature.… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
I have had much pleasure in working with Orphei Drängar during my time as chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and… — Neeme Jarvi Copy Share Image
“Sunlight was everywhere, glittering gold off the bright green leaves of the garden. A blackcap, concealed within the foliage of a nearby… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children?… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
“Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios. — Skitch Henderson Copy Share Image
Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem. — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Show me an orchestra that likes its conductor and I'll show you a lousy conductor. — Goddard Lieberson Copy Share Image
