Dessert Quote by Joe Hisaishi

it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience…

— Tod Machover

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

— Willie Nelson

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

— Kurt Masur

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

— Andris Nelsons

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

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

— Leonard Bernstein

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why?…

— Peter Capaldi

My memories of mealtimes are a real bleed of music and food. Music never really stopped in the music room, because everyone would move…

— Anoushka Shankar

There is no greater thrill than to sing with a beautiful orchestra.

— Julie Andrews

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

— David Ogden Stiers

It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra.

— Andris Nelsons

Every orchestra has its own sound.

— Simon Rattle