Challenges Quote by Elliott Carter

Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

— Nico Muhly

The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around.

— Simon Rattle

What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are…

— Jonny Greenwood

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.

— Paul Lansky

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own…

— Harry Connick, Jr

Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody.

— Ludwig Goransson

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

— Kurt Masur

For an artist, there's nothing better than working with an orchestra.

— Rene Angelil

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

— Thomas Beecham

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing…

— Randy Newman

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one…

— David Del Tredici

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

— Howard Shore