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
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
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
Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a… — Nico Muhly 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
I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
If the rhythm or beat of the music changes with a live orchestra, you have to think on your feet. If you… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary… — Carlo Maria Giulini Copy Share Image
There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this… — James Levine Copy Share Image
I'm happy to have interns at The Weekly Standard and happy to have readers of The Weekly Standard, but if you all… — William Kristol 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
I never shied away from a challenge and I love doing big, epic films. They're interesting to me just on a pure… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra. — Leila Josefowicz Copy Share Image
It was very challenging, trying to add an orchestra on top of these traditional African rhythms, because as soon as you add… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know… — Nate Ruess 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
Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
I used to sing classical music to the flowers in the garden and imagine they were all different parts of the orchestra.… — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous. — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good,… — Howard Keel Copy Share Image
In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm… — Khalid Copy Share Image
Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners. — Allan Kozinn Copy Share Image
People talk very much about, 'What can we do with the orchestra in the 21st century?' We should think about the 21st… — Andris Nelsons 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
My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it. — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
“That smell mixed with the scent of getting tied up and fucked became the smell of complete release, of an orchestra connected… — C.D. Reiss 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 this vast cosmic orchestra, peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.” — Amit Ray 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 have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra.… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
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