Orchestras Quotes
43 quotes by 31 authors
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I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.
— Gustavo Dudamel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
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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
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I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
— David Ogden Stiers
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Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Ourchestra: So you haven't got a drum, just beat your belly. So I haven't got a horn-I'll play my nose. So we haven't any cymbals-…
— Shel Silverstein
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I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras in…
— John Williams
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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
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I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.
— Zubin Mehta
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
— Zubin Mehta
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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
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There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
— Zubin Mehta
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Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could…
— Jeffrey Tate
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
— Lara St. John
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When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
— Placido Domingo
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But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our…
— Michael Tilson Thomas
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