A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
When you make a record, you are more relaxed, because you know if something is not good, you can repeat it. Onstage,… — Mirella Freni 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
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
[conductor Eugene Ormandy introduces Warfield to the audience in an unintentionally humorous way:] With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with… — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra… — Laura Mvula 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
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
You can only learn orchestration if you have the possibility of using an orchestra. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
If you listen - and I don't, usually - to my first two records, I sound like a baby surrounded by a… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat,… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I used to be selected for the Pennsylvania all-state orchestra. It was a thrill to go from my home town of Aliquippa… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
If anything, I thought I would go the conservatory route, practice cello and try to get into the best orchestra I could,… — Laufey Copy Share Image
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on… — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an… — Ruggiero Ricci 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
