When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session. — Placido Domingo 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
That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
Nothing can grab you by the throat - or heart or soul - like an orchestra. It's undeniably the most engaging and… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on… — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I wanted to do 'Manzanar' because I'd never done anything like it before. The spoken word there is between a drama and… — John Cho Copy Share Image
The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra,… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I am lucky to have the greatest band and when you add a symphony orchestra to the mix it brings all of… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to… — Nobuo Uematsu Copy Share Image
I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William Blake wrote for the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting… — Esa-Pekka Salonen 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
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
Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities.… — Aimee Garcia Copy Share Image
“The truth of an orchestra is heard when they try to find their common notes before the show. All those strings and… — Kelly Gardiner Copy Share Image
“But that afternoon there was an orchestra playing. Music filling the brownstone. Black fingers pulling violin bows and strumming cellos, dark lips… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
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
I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
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