Orchestra Quotes

347 Orchestra quotes by 211 unique authors

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy. — Gustavo Dudamel
With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community. — Gustavo Dudamel
For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the… — Gustavo Dudamel
I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get… — Danny Elfman
I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and… — Jonny Greenwood
I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part… — Jonny Greenwood
While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a… — Skitch Henderson
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra. — Leila Josefowicz
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives… — Rachel Kushner
Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing in Heaven. We're… — David Berg
New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live… — Kristin Chenoweth
There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an… — John Philip Sousa
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to… — Asger Jorn
Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of… — Zubin Mehta
Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where leadership is passed… — Phillip C. Schlechty
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something… — Robert Fripp
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can… — Robert Fripp
The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra… — Frank Gehry
I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well. — Evelyn Glennie
Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff. — Harry Connick, Jr.

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