Orchestra Quotes
347 Orchestra quotes by 211 unique authors
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The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
— Brian May
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When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.
— Les Baxter
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When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It…
— Bobby Vinton
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My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but…
— Louis Prima
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I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just…
— Nobuo Uematsu
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Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now,…
— Chuck Mangione
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If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not…
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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There was a time, from 1935-1946, when teenagers and young adults danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and when influential clarinettists…
— Scott Yanow
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all…
— Barbara Cook
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Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.
— Keith Emerson
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True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a…
— Richard Wagner
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I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.
— Dido Armstrong
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But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to…
— Michael Tilson Thomas
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Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa.
— Eugene Ormandy
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Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.
— Eugene Ormandy
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Who is sitting in that empty chair?
— Eugene Ormandy
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I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.
— Eugene Ormandy
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I conduct faster so you can see my beat.
— Eugene Ormandy
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I cannot give it to you, so try to watch me.
— Eugene Ormandy
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I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.
— Eugene Ormandy
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I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.
— Eugene Ormandy
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I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.
— Eugene Ormandy
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The next movement is still in the factory.
— Eugene Ormandy
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Think of your girlfriend or boyfriend or whomever you want to.
— Eugene Ormandy
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Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.
— Eugene Ormandy
Who Wrote These Orchestra Quotes
211 authors contributed a total of 347 Orchestra Quotes, led by these top contributors: