Miles Quote by Milton Berle

Everyone thinks they've got a book inside them.

— Lisa Jewell

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

— Billie Holiday

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

— Simon Rattle

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

— Alex Kapranos

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

— Elliott Carter

“I learned that there are books and there are readers; given even the worst of circumstances, they get together. In the privacy of their…

— Elizabeth McCracken

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

— Thomas Beecham

I think the preservation of orchestras and what they do is worth expending all the ways there are to reach out to people who…

— David Ogden Stiers

People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who…

— David Ogden Stiers

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

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.

— Buzz Osborne

I never thought the orchestra should be big.

— Alexandre Desplat