Attention Quote by Leila Josefowicz

It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of performance experience.

— Hilary Hahn

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

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven,…

— Charles Mingus

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

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

— Dave Brubeck

I usually need a lot of time to be completely alone with the particular piece, the composer, and the instrument. I also prefer a…

— Rafal Blechacz

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

— Edwin Land

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 sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy…

— Marco Beltrami

Attention has to be concentrated upon your Spirit. Then you become the best instrument, your attention very powerful.

— Nirmala Srivastava

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

When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers up, my…

— Jonny Greenwood