Classical music Quote by John Fahey

I got to compose for a full symphony orchestra.

— Jack Conte

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in…

— Mose Allison

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

— Henry Mancini

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

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

— Howard Shore

I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing,…

— Wendy Carlos

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

— Gavin Bryars

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to…

— Ben Harper

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

You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for…

— Arnold Bennett

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

— Paul Lansky

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

— Dido Armstrong