Orchestra Quotes

347 Orchestra quotes by 211 unique authors

Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And… — R. Murray Schafer
The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture.… — Roland Joffe
[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we… — Charles Hazlewood
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra. — Paul Bocuse
My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with… — Gustavo Dudamel
For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony, — Jean Sibelius
I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And… — Jean Sibelius
The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc to lap, a… — Unknown Author
In order to lead the orchestra, you must first turn your back to the crowd. — Mike Mentzer
In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it — Paul Fournel
The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the same horse, but… — Nuno Oliveira
In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely. — Max Lucado
I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience… — Kurt Masur
Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following… — Artur Rodzinski
Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here),… — Lara St. John
During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini that they rose… — James Keller
Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form,… — Michael Jackson
The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra. — Max Roach
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an… — Helen Keller

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