Ifs Quote by Gail Zappa

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

— Elliott Carter

There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want -…

— Michael Nyman

The most immediately gratifying thing about my work is conducting a large orchestra. But the long range payoff is composing because you've written something…

— Henry Mancini

The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind of boring…

— Andrew Bird

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.

— Willie Nelson

It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your…

— Bryce Dessner

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

— Dave Brubeck

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

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

— Rene Angelil

I think the work process' - composers do not get enough time to make a good song. That's the one thing which needs to…

— Amaal Mallik

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

— Gavin Bryars

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

— Placido Domingo