Orchestra Quotes · Page 10

When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted…

— Mark Lawrenson

Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And…

— Andrea Bocelli

I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we…

— James Levine

“The tuning up of an orchestra can be itself delightful, but only to those who can in some measure, however little, anticipate…

— C.S. Lewis

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.

— Paul Lansky

My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.

— Petra Haden

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between…

— Glenn Branca

Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the…

— John Calvin

It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time,…

— Ian Anderson

There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz…

— Alexandre Desplat

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

Being a part of the crowd with incredible musicians onstage summoning the muse and delivering that to us - doesn't matter if…

— Patrick Fabian

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

Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in…

— Michael Jackson

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who…

— Jello Biafra

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

— Lara St. John

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash…

— Fernando Pessoa

An orchestra can add some class, a historical vibe, but I believe you can get the same emotion from pottery wheels.

— Brian Reitzell

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

— Leonard Bernstein

The conductor of an orchestra doesnt make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

— Suman Rai

Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in…

— Eberhard Weber

I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could…

— Robert Schumann

I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra.

— Max Martin

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track,…

— Bryan Ferry

“This women's orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet…

— Bailey Bristol

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the…

— Warren Jeffs

One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the…

— Steve Young

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor…

— William Ralph Inge

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.

— Barbra Streisand

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

— Sarah Caldwell

I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be…

— Laurence Equilbey

“People clutch onto each other, but the orchestra plays on, because when everything else in life fails, there still has to be…

— Anonymous

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the…

— Brian May

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the…

— Quincy Jones

Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without…

— James Nesbitt

Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

— Paul Bocuse