Orchestra Quotes

347 Orchestra quotes by 211 unique authors

Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with… — Gregory Colbert
I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But… — Anne Michaels
Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the… — Mark Mothersbaugh
But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep… — Michael Tilson Thomas
Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer… — Adam Schiff
They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying… — Michael Tilson Thomas
When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all… — Itzhak Perlman
Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which… — Skitch Henderson
The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or… — Lisa Loeb
The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually… — George Shearing
He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the… — Robert Ripley
I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor. — Kurt Masur
When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session. — Placido Domingo
When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person… — David Del Tredici
In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for… — David Amram
Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and… — Kurt Masur
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna… — Harry Mathews
I played cello in my high school orchestra. — Eberhard Weber
Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem. — Elliott Carter
I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating… — Itzhak Perlman
I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So… — James Laughlin
Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit. — Kid Koala
The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world. — Jane Byrne
I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears. — Burt Bacharach
You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character. — Kurt Masur

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