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
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
I'm from Italy, the home of Vivaldi, Rossini, Puccini. When I stopped playing and became a manager, football became like a beautiful… — Claudio Ranieri Copy Share Image
There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different… — David Del Tredici Copy Share Image
We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of… — J. Boone 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
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like… — Alexander McCall Smith 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
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
It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the… — Jeanette Lee Copy Share Image
“It was no struggle to get him back to his room with the excuse I wanted to hear his enthralling music again… — Valentine Glass Copy Share Image
I am equally comfortable conducting an orchestra or talking to a group of academics as I am on stage playing with a… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
“The unfinished symphony that is your life is built on the harmony within your orchestra that grows in number of musicians every… — Will Jelbert Copy Share Image
As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we… — James Levine Copy Share Image
I was in the orchestra pit for 'Pippin' my freshman year. I played flute. But I only did it because I had… — Heidi Gardner Copy Share Image
Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra. — Sivamani Copy Share Image
Through conducting, you express through your arms, through your face and even the body, what you want to tell, so the musicians… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place. — Jimmy Durante Copy Share Image
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are a few great orchestras in the world, thank goodness. Although some people do put them in ranking order, it's not… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business… — Paul McCreesh Copy Share Image
If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't… — Wynton Marsalis 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
I like the power and versatility of a big band and how an orchestra can vary the dynamics from very loud to… — Kurt Elling 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
“I went with him to the Opera Orchestra, even though the programs were so boring and dragged on so long that I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have… — Andrea Bocelli 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
My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played… — Louis Prima Copy Share Image
And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
