Alive Quote by Glenn Branca

The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

— Benjamin Zander

The conductor of an orchestra doesnt make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

— Suman Rai

It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful and touching…

— Tessanne Chin

I thought there couldn't be a better backdrop for some kind of powerful music than a big orchestra. My wish to hear how a…

— Jeff Beck

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

— Leonard Bernstein

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

— Chick Corea

The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the…

— Frank Gehry

Every orchestra has its own sound.

— Simon Rattle

It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing…

— Howard Jacobson

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

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

— Howard Shore

Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable…

— Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov