It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group. — Ken Hensley Copy Share Image
I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction. — Placido Domingo Copy Share Image
I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
It's easy for me to write a quasi-virtuosic orchestral score. What is harder is to do that and say, all right, that… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Bjork, I'd love to do something with her. I'd love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her. — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Orchestral musicians have a different approach than we do, and when I say 'we,' I mean musicians who don't know what they… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
“The orchestral music is glorious but I wish they'd stop playing for a minute: it's very hard to eavesdrop properly over a… — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it… — Kiri Te Kanawa Copy Share Image
What I love about film music is the variety. On one movie, you might be asked to do a completely electronic score,… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
The first season of 'Human Target' was to me the pinnacle of my career as a composer. It pushed me to become… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
For some reason, as a kid, I felt outwardly embarrassed to say that I liked rock music. I don't know where that… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
“The life of matter can be embraced only by an orchestral style, at once polychromatic, polyphonic, and polymorphous, by means of the… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see… — Tony Williams Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of 20th century orchestral music, the experimental avant-garde composers of the '50s, '60s, and '70s. In horror movies you… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
I was classically trained. But more than just the fact that I play violin, there's a lot of classical elements in the… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
After moving to Los Angeles in the early '90s, I started looking into "music for picture" more seriously and in broader scope.… — Paul Haslinger Copy Share Image
My interest in music tends toward being orchestral music. And the repertoire of music that exists is, to me, far more emotive… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism. — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
Playing pentatonic scales over orchestral music is not something I want to do or listen to. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I want to write orchestral music. I want to get a group of singers together and sing William Byrd songs. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
In superficial terms, to have an orchestral career is to be better than others, or at least to be chosen over others… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with… — Wendy Carlos Copy Share Image
I'm sure that I was influenced by Goldsmith's large orchestral scores when I started out, and that was because the people who… — James Horner Copy Share Image
Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it… — Bill Dixon Copy Share Image
I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds,… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral… — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with… — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
One of the great things about working on 'Battlestar' is, while we don't use orchestra all the time, when we do, I… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
