Orchestra Quote by Cecil Taylor Download Open image “To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.” — Cecil Taylor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Orchestra Piano
The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument. — McCoy Tyner Copy Share Image
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language. — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music. — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt… — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
The first record I made, when I listen to it, I understand. I understand perfectly well why certain musicians were unhappy with me. I… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano. — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
When I came out of the conservatory, the first thing I did was to go see Thelonious Monk. — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice. — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
They say, 'We will give you money, but we want you to play this or that.' And I always thought, 'If I'm going to… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
You know what the material is so that you never play it the same way twice. — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it. — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm saying that people who are enmeshed in situations of subjugation and have to live, have to find ways to project their dignity as… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
Before he fought Billy Conn, Joe Louis said, 'He can run, but he can't hide.' That's how I feel about New York: You can… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
What a gift it would be if every child in the country could hear a professional orchestra at least once. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
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… — Howard Keel Copy Share Image
There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you can rewrite… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I feel choir just has a great sense of power when used with an orchestra, or even by itself. — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
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… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they sound really… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with. — Keith Emerson Copy Share Image
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