Orchestra Quotes

347 Orchestra quotes by 211 unique authors

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard. — Esa-Pekka Salonen
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. — Andres Segovia
I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master… — Robert Schumann
Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the… — Robert Schumann
You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. — Navjot Singh Sidhu
I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you… — Stephen Sondheim
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in… — David Ogden Stiers
Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra. — David Ogden Stiers
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me. — David Ogden Stiers
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra. — Barbra Streisand
How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? — Desmond Tutu
I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing… — Andrew Lloyd Webber
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. — Lawrence Welk
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. — Mae West
When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a… — Teddy Wilson
Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or… — Dweezil Zappa
The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version… — Stephen Fry
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses… — Anais Nin
I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious… — J D Salinger
May night continue to fall upon the orchestra — Andre Breton

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