Orchestra Quotes

347 quotes by 221 authors

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor. — Jason Bateman
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. — Thomas Beecham
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. — Leonard Bernstein
There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least… — Jello Biafra
I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to… — Andrea Bocelli
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 comes… — Andrea Bocelli
I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job… — Nadia Boulanger
It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. — Dave Brubeck
It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been… — Tori Amos
For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life. — Dale Carnegie
To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place. — Jimmy Durante
The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra,… — Victor Borge
Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not… — George Bernard Shaw
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. — Bernard Williams
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. — Leonard Bernstein
Existence cares. When I say God cares I mean that existence cares for you, it is not indifferent. Let this be the foundation of your… — Rajneesh
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. — Nicholas Meyer
We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole. — J. Boone
What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of… — Anthony de Mello
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies… — Francis Crick

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