A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality. — Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
You can only learn orchestration if you have the possibility of using an orchestra. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument. — McCoy Tyner Copy Share Image
With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community. — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
What a gift it would be if every child in the country could hear a professional orchestra at least once. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
“I wanted the music to be full, to surround us, to lift us like the swell, so I rented a bloody orchestra.… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“The conductor of the orchestra doesn’t make a sound. His power comes from awakening possibility in others. —Benjamin Zander, conductor and coauthor… — Malcolm Harkins Copy Share Image
If you listen - and I don't, usually - to my first two records, I sound like a baby surrounded by a… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction. — John Cage Copy Share Image
We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
It wasn't like we cut songs out; we cut bits of songs, bits of action or bits of whatever. So we would… — Eric Fellner Copy Share Image
When you make a record, you are more relaxed, because you know if something is not good, you can repeat it. Onstage,… — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies,… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
Even if I was playing the keyboard in an orchestra, or a radio jockey playing music at an FM station, I would… — D. Imman Copy Share Image
Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
“The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the right place.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
“JULY 20. I've just walked into the opera house. I have no programme. Strange new players are premiering a piece by a… — Erich Hoyt Copy Share Image
I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family. — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. — James Crook Copy Share Image
One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist. — Bronislaw Huberman Copy Share Image
The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world. — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
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