Orchestra Quotes

347 Orchestra quotes by 211 unique authors

I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being. — Osric Chau
I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own… — Laura Mvula
I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down… — Laura Mvula
If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra. — Joey Fatone
The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you… — Gerald Edelman
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra. — Howard Shore
I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music. — Howard Shore
I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I… — Zubin Mehta
There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they… — Zubin Mehta
The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra. — Zubin Mehta
I always felt that I would become somebody outstanding, whether it was in singing, instrumental playing, orchestra conducting, or anything involving feeling. — Rudy Vallee
I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the… — Rudy Vallee
Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he gives… — Christian Dior
The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
I have sat in with the Burbank Philharmonic and the Topanga Orchestra when they need someone if someone gets sick or something. — Torrey DeVitto
Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble. — Charles Hazlewood
I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for strings, you can… — Caroline Shaw
Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are… — James Nesbitt
I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a… — Trevor Rabin
I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind… — Damien Chazelle
I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using… — Leon Theremin
I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard… — John Fahey
So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New… — Gunther Schuller
Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing… — Bobby McFerrin
The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed. — Chick Corea

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