Always Quote by Curtis Mayfield

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

— Glen Campbell

I wanted to unite the popular and the serious, and to make a popular symphony, a popular oratorio.

— Mikis Theodorakis

I got to compose for a full symphony orchestra.

— Jack Conte

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

— Gerry Mulligan

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

— Anthony Daniels

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

— Andre Previn

I always wanted to perform.

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

— Atul Gawande

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

— Olivia Newton-John

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my…

— Laura Mvula

Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.

— Ramin Djawadi