Groups Quote by Bill Dixon

I have recorded with a 60-piece orchestra, and it gives me satisfaction to have done an album entirely with acoustic instruments.

— Santhosh Narayanan

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own…

— Harry Connick, Jr

When I write for an album, I'll always have about 30 different types of instrument around me. I set them up in a small…

— Joe Bonamassa

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

— Evelyn Glennie

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

— Elvis Costello

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

— Paul Lansky

Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room.

— Lee Ranaldo

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

— Justin Townes Earle

Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and…

— Steve Vai

I've got about three or four rooms of records, and two rooms of instruments.

— Madlib

In my solo work on my own albums, I have used voice synthesizers and vocoders quite a lot in connection with orchestral instruments.

— Johann Johannsson

I don't sit and write records from start to finish. I write all the time, and when it's time to record you just look…

— Samuel Ervin Beam