Band Quote by Glenn Ligon

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at…

— Vanessa Carlton

The music lovers of London and the country deserve to have something where orchestras can flourish. You have no idea how wonderful an orchestra…

— Simon Rattle

Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community.

— Simon Rattle

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

It's a stage with four lights clamped to it with walls made out of plywood. And then my name's in the center. It's the…

— Josh Smith

I never thought the orchestra should be big.

— Alexandre Desplat

Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.

— Allan Kozinn

We fly to the town in the little private airplane, and then we have to get in cars and drive to the hotel and…

— Walter Becker

I don't quite think I'm big enough to deserve an orchestra.

— Tim Minchin

In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a…

— Jeffrey Tate

We are working on organising classical music festivals in a bid to promote qawwali there and produce films that promote music. Perhaps people lack…

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

— Dizzy Gillespie