Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't… — Jon Brion Copy Share Image
I always felt that I would become somebody outstanding, whether it was in singing, instrumental playing, orchestra conducting, or anything involving feeling. — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
I don't want the World Dream Orchestra to be like a dessert whose taste is instantly forgotten as soon as you leave… — Joe Hisaishi Copy Share Image
“Heaven is all around us. All we need is perception; to extol the melodies of Nature's orchestra.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a… — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
There was a time, from 1935-1946, when teenagers and young adults danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and… — Scott Yanow Copy Share Image
Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws,… — Wanda Landowska Copy Share Image
I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
Before Liszt, a conductor was someone who just facilitated the performance, who would keep people together or beat the time, indicate the… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces,… — Alan J. Pakula Copy Share Image
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. — George Szell Copy Share Image
When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get… — Teddy Wilson Copy Share Image
The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
If the orchestra's not enjoying itself, the concerto will not succeed, with the players confined to using half an inch of bow. — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast… — Bobby Vinton Copy Share Image
“Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little balls of bullshit,… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I… — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra. — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire… — Osric Chau Copy Share Image
For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why… — Andris Nelsons 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
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
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
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
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
If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
