Bigs Quote by Leonard Slatkin

The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around.

— Simon Rattle

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

— Elliott Carter

Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great…

— Joshua Bell

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

— John Cage

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play…

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

— Zubin Mehta

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

— Kurt Masur

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's…

— Martin Fowler

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that…

— Robertson Davies

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

— Anthony Hopkins

I don't quite think I'm big enough to deserve an orchestra.

— Tim Minchin

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

— James Levine