It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The musical training taught me to focus my mind, before playing in an orchestra taught me how to truly concentrate. If you… — Alastair Cook Copy Share Image
I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful… — Tessanne Chin Copy Share Image
New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the… — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
My education as a film composer, you can't not - if you like the orchestra like I do, if you are a… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
I tried to bring in the live orchestra like Bjork does. I love the feeling that that music gives me when I… — Willa Ford Copy Share Image
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
What makes games so exciting is that's a whole other- there's all sorts of other considerations on what music is supposed to… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra. — Max Martin Copy Share Image
And we would play together, like fine musicians should, And it would sound like music, and the music would sound good. But… — Harry Chapin 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 was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 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
I have often said to the orchestra, especially to the younger players, 'Do your best, and love what you are doing, because… — Herbert von Karajan Copy Share Image
I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces. — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
