Doors Quote by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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…

— Jeffrey Tate

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

— Slavoj Žižek

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

— Skitch Henderson

You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We…

— David Longstreth

Music brings unity.

— Trombone Shorty

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

— Leonard Slatkin

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

— Renee Fleming

Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers,…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching…

— John Eaton

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

— Skitch Henderson

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that…

— Robertson Davies

Every orchestra has its own sound.

— Simon Rattle