While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon… — Skitch Henderson Copy Share Image
They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
There is a mysterious way in which orchestras keep a sense of their history and what they've done. I still listen to… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted… — Mark Lawrenson Copy Share Image
I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the… — John Williams Copy Share Image
The Boston Symphony is one of the best orchestras in the world and has such a great tradition - which I want… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time,… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle,… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
“For a short while she considered the idea of orchestral courtesy. Certainly one should avoid giving political offence: German orchestras, of course,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and… — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
Musical 'fusion' projects have earned themselves a bad name, but that's mainly because they often involve pop artists conscripting orchestras to play… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
I studied music all the way through college, but as soon as I graduated from university, I got straight into London and… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
Ourchestra: So you haven't got a drum, just beat your belly. So I haven't got a horn-I'll play my nose. So we… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money,… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to… — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff.… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to play with symphony orchestras - I've played with many - but it's really special in Israel because… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we… — James Levine Copy Share Image
I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into… — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
There are a few great orchestras in the world, thank goodness. Although some people do put them in ranking order, it's not… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living… — Michael Tilson Thomas 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
The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment,… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
You could almost write an opera about the selection of music directors for orchestras. The intrigues are really interesting, and then, at… — Andris Nelsons 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
