Action Quote by D.J. Stutley

“I wanted the music to be full, to surround us, to lift us like the swell, so I rented a bloody orchestra. You only…

— Mark Helprin

“The truth of an orchestra is heard when they try to find their common notes before the show. All those strings and tubes and…

— Kelly Gardiner

“Just like life. Each person was like one line of music, but nobody knew what the symphony sounded like. Only the conductor had the…

— Janet Fitch

“In the end, all that's left is an echo.”

— Kimberly Derting

“And in the depths of music, I didn’t find the answer, And again there was silence, and again the ghost of summer.”

— Anna Akhmatova

“The instruments were all half desired, half forgotten. It was as if they were left behind by a ghost right in the middle of…

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

“The orchestral music is glorious but I wish they'd stop playing for a minute: it's very hard to eavesdrop properly over a grand piano…

— Holly Smale

“It was clear that the composer no longer consoled himself with the thought that music could express everything and did not require verbal commentary.”

— Solomon Volkov

“There were tightly wound strings shivering in the air as the overture began in full.”

— E.K. Johnston

“The silence must be longer. This music is about the silence. The sounds are there to surround the silence.”

— Arvo Pärt

“...there was a general murmuring, no real words, nothing that would get anyone into trouble if the piper turned nasty, but a muttering indicating,…

— Terry Pratchett

“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments with fiddle-strings & harps, drums & tambourines, I sound & clash inside myself.…

— Fernando Pessoa