Collaboration Quote by Michael Tilson Thomas

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all…

— Andrew Bird

Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community.

— Simon Rattle

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

We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.

— J. Boone

I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the…

— Gustavo Dudamel

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which…

— Charles Hazlewood

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

— James Levine

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

— Elliott Carter

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

— David Ogden Stiers

And we would play together, like fine musicians should, And it would sound like music, and the music would sound good. But in real…

— Harry Chapin

It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra.

— Andris Nelsons

When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.

— Condoleezza Rice