There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on… — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
Nothing can grab you by the throat - or heart or soul - like an orchestra. It's undeniably the most engaging and… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality,… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by music and sounds. I was lucky to receive proper classical training as an orchestra player and I'm… — Lior Ron Copy Share Image
The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
There's always that possibility. But, it would take a hell of a lot of work. Because unlike a movie where you just… — Eric Fellner Copy Share Image
I don't walk on stage unless I'm playing with a orchestra. But when I play a recital, I'm sort of on a… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going… — Donald O'Connor Copy Share Image
At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists, but I don't have a pianist or… — Manuel Pellegrini Copy Share Image
An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
I miss singing with an orchestra because that's the most uplifting thing that I ever knew. It is just such a fabulous… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Every time that I hear the orchestra tuning up, I get chills all over my body. You know, catharsis after catharsis. It's… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
People talk very much about, 'What can we do with the orchestra in the 21st century?' We should think about the 21st… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners. — Allan Kozinn Copy Share Image
In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good,… — Howard Keel Copy Share Image
It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
I used to sing classical music to the flowers in the garden and imagine they were all different parts of the orchestra.… — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
Yeah, I would go to New England Conservatory a lot. My orchestra teacher ran a program for minority students there. — Kevin Olusola Copy Share Image
It was very challenging, trying to add an orchestra on top of these traditional African rhythms, because as soon as you add… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra. — Leila Josefowicz Copy Share Image
I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
And your dinner for the orchestra officials." "Haven't you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
