The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing… — David Berg Copy Share Image
But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I think my first impression (of Bix Beiderbecke) was the lasting one. I remember very clearly thinking, 'Where, what planet, did this… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business… — Paul McCreesh Copy Share Image
And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra .… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound… — Bob Simon Copy Share Image
When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get… — Teddy Wilson Copy Share Image
I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to… — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever… — Ray Bradbury 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
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
Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized. — John Barrymore Copy Share Image
[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those… — Bjork Copy Share Image
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