Orchestra Quotes

347 Orchestra quotes by 211 unique authors

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach,… — Charles Mingus
Originally I had a block about appearing in a musical. I went to a voice teacher for a while, but that did no good. My… — Rex Harrison
As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers… — Howard Keel
As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up… — James Levine
I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest — James Levine
Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some… — Unknown Author
My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall,… — B B King
Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And… — Donald O'Connor
One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist. — Bronislaw Huberman
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra. — Cecil Taylor
I love the sound of snow... You can hear it even if you are only standing on a balcony. [The sound] is only minimal, not… — Unknown Author
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. — George Szell
A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a… — Robert Benchley
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like… — Warren G. Bennis
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude… — Isaac Babel
Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life… — Jim Rohn
A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think that it is… — Unknown Author
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make… — Marc Almond
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. — Edmund Wilson
If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum… — Robert McKee
I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to… — Ricky Skaggs
I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that… — Jonny Greenwood
We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a… — Al Gore
I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion? — Dimitris Mitropoulos
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your… — Unknown Author

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