Fitness Quote by Alastair Cook

Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself.

— Hiromi

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I…

— John Fahey

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz,…

— Goran Ivanisevic

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

— Gavin Bryars

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare…

— David Amram

Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra…

— Andrea Bocelli

One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument.

— Steve Young

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

— Dido Armstrong

I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then…

— Zubin Mehta

“To play in an orchestra, we need not master every instrument. We must simply learn to play our own. But first, we must learn…

— Vironika Tugaleva

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

— Leila Josefowicz

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being…

— Payne Stewart