Bow Quote by Julian Bream

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

— Garrison Keillor

There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.

— Leonard Slatkin

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

— David Ogden Stiers

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

— Edwin Land

The way you hold the bow, the way that violinists are trained to produce a note, is really different. I'm not an expert in…

— Bruce Molsky

It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some…

— Ian Anderson

I never thought the orchestra should be big.

— Alexandre Desplat

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out…

— Itzhak Perlman

“No bow can be strung indefinitely, for it will surely break”

— Nicholas C. Rossis

The bow always strung ... will not do.

— George Eliot

The conductor must make it possible to eliminate himself in the music. If the orchestra feels him doing that, then everything will go well.

— Giuseppe Sinopoli

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

— Zubin Mehta