Audience Quote by Frank Gehry

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

— Simon Rattle

It can and will be a more powerful sound but the orchestra has far more potential for expressive power. When I hear a great…

— Glenn Branca

I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor and everybody…

— Daniel Barenboim

What makes games so exciting is that's a whole other- there's all sorts of other considerations on what music is supposed to achieve and…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for…

— Arnold Bennett

I have often said to the orchestra, especially to the younger players, 'Do your best, and love what you are doing, because you are…

— Herbert von Karajan

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

— James Levine

I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the…

— Gustavo Dudamel

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

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

It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some…

— Ian Anderson

“To play in an orchestra, we need not master every instrument. We must simply learn to play our own. But first, we must learn…

— Vironika Tugaleva