Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
“A dean is the conductor of an orchestra made up entirely of composers.” — Mark William Roche Copy Share Image
A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality. — Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
You can only learn orchestration if you have the possibility of using an orchestra. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every… — Anna Meredith Copy Share Image
People get a real kick out of hearing our songs with an orchestra. It makes you feel like you're in a movie… — Cindy Wilson Copy Share Image
To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I have recorded with a 60-piece orchestra, and it gives me satisfaction to have done an album entirely with acoustic instruments. — Santhosh Narayanan Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
There's always that possibility. But, it would take a hell of a lot of work. Because unlike a movie where you just… — Eric Fellner Copy Share Image
On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it.… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm… — Tom Fontana Copy Share Image
It's a small city where I have a lot of time to think. The orchestra and I have had a chance to… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini… — James Keller Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I sometimes like to think of God as a great symphony and the various spiritual paths as instruments in an orchestra. The… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Originally I had a block about appearing in a musical. I went to a voice teacher for a while, but that did… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
“Sunlight was everywhere, glittering gold off the bright green leaves of the garden. A blackcap, concealed within the foliage of a nearby… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
“The man who wishes to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” — James Crook Copy Share Image
We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
I've always loved mixing Middle Eastern instruments into a classical orchestra. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
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