I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music… — Trevor Horn Copy Share Image
I come to New Orleans so often that, one day soon, someone's going to declare me a native. I love the food.… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known. — Eugene Ormandy 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
Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
Max Lucado says that 'A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.' That is true… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I feel opera is an expression of artistic excellence. To do it is expensive, as there's a requirement for an orchestra, good… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra… — Leon Theremin Copy Share Image
I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
In western classical music with an orchestra, you focus the orchestra on melodies and harmony. In African music, the biggest focus is… — Ludwig Goransson 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
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 I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really… — King Krule Copy Share Image
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa. — Eugene Ormandy 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
The conductor must make it possible to eliminate himself in the music. If the orchestra feels him doing that, then everything will… — Giuseppe Sinopoli Copy Share Image
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber… — Elvis Costello 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
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 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
Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough… — Kurt Masur 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
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 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
A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that,… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
“To play in an orchestra, we need not master every instrument. We must simply learn to play our own. But first, we… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra. — David Ogden Stiers 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
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
I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra,… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I have always been an extrovert. When I was younger, I would go outside and sing to the flowers and pretend they… — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to… — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
