I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone's going to declare me a native. I love the food.… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar… — John Fahey Copy Share Image
What appeals to me about an American music directorship is the involvement of the conductor with the orchestra and the community. I… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
I have always been an extrovert. When I was younger, I would go outside and sing to the flowers and pretend they… — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful. — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you… — David Amram 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
Being a part of the crowd with incredible musicians onstage summoning the muse and delivering that to us - doesn't matter if… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky.… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary… — Carlo Maria Giulini 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
Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
An orchestra can add some class, a historical vibe, but I believe you can get the same emotion from pottery wheels. — Brian Reitzell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little balls of bullshit,… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
