Listen Quote by Bryce Dessner

It is based off the pentatonic scale, which is a five-note scale in music. And there are five of us. We were going to…

— Kirstin Maldonado

Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.

— Dimebag Darrell

What I love about film music is the variety. On one movie, you might be asked to do a completely electronic score, and then…

— Ramin Djawadi

Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of…

— Brian Eno

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

— Elvis Costello

In superficial terms, to have an orchestral career is to be better than others, or at least to be chosen over others on that…

— Stephen Hough

For some reason, as a kid, I felt outwardly embarrassed to say that I liked rock music. I don't know where that came from.…

— Michael Giacchino

It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing…

— Howard Jacobson

“The orchestral music is glorious but I wish they'd stop playing for a minute: it's very hard to eavesdrop properly over a grand piano…

— Holly Smale

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

— Tod Machover

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as…

— Tony Williams

I was classically trained. But more than just the fact that I play violin, there's a lot of classical elements in the way I…

— Lindsey Stirling