Always Quote by Jonny Greenwood

I am privileged to be at the right end of violins: not the end holding it but to listen to it.

— Roger Moore

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music…

— Andrew Bird

Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and…

— James Levine

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

— Evelyn Glennie

I'm really just a frustrated violinist.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

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 actually prefer to hear small groups of instruments. Orchestras seem to lack a texture for me, or variety of texture. There's only about…

— Stephin Merritt

I began as a violinist, not a composer. Thus my contact with orchestral musicians, with the source of music, is very important.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little…

— Nico Muhly

I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

— Abel Korzeniowski

I've found that since I've been playing the acoustic, listening to a horn player has left me thinking, well, what can I do with…

— Bill Orcutt

I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon.…

— Jean Sibelius