Compose Quote by Jack Conte

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I…

— John Fahey

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

— Dido Armstrong

I had been composing just for myself, and people would say I played so orchestrally, and wondered if I thought about having someone write…

— Terry Bozzio

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

— Paul Lansky

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.

— Henry Mancini

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

— Dave Brubeck

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

— Glen Campbell

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as…

— Tony Williams

I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.

— Andris Nelsons

I wanted to unite the popular and the serious, and to make a popular symphony, a popular oratorio.

— Mikis Theodorakis

I wanted to be a composer.

— Frank Sinatra Jr