Famous Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my…

— Laura Mvula

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

— David Ogden Stiers

There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.

— Leonard Slatkin

It's a wonderful thing to play with symphony orchestras - I've played with many - but it's really special in Israel because you have…

— Jose Feliciano

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.

— Paul Lansky

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

— John Cage

The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind of boring…

— Andrew Bird

It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra.

— Andris Nelsons

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

— Dido Armstrong

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.

— Andris Nelsons

On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it…

— Eberhard Weber