About Quote by Caroline Shaw

I've always seen music as colours, with basses maybe translating to dark blues, and trebles as yellows and ochres and a general sense of…

— Goldie

Different musical instruments provide for different music.

— Amos Oz

Initially, when I was making the bagpipes and reed instruments, it was different from the other instruments. In terms of sound itself, it may…

— Yoshi Wada

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or…

— Wassily Kandinsky

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

— Leonard Bernstein

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

— Andres Segovia

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all…

— Gerry Mulligan

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

— Gustav Mahler

The good thing about playing this style that we play, you know, the progressive element of it, is that we can add in different…

— John Petrucci

“The characteristic sounds of a trumpet, oboe, banjo, piano, or violin are due to the distinct cocktail of harmonic frequencies that each instrument produces.…

— Walter Lewin

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

— John French Sloan

I actually prefer to hear small groups of instruments. Orchestras seem to lack a texture for me, or variety of texture. There's only about…

— Stephin Merritt