Birth Quote by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.

— Henry Mancini

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

— Gavin Bryars

Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody.

— Ludwig Goransson

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

— Howard Shore

Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

— Nico Muhly

You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for…

— Arnold Bennett

For an artist, there's nothing better than working with an orchestra.

— Rene Angelil

You can only learn orchestration if you have the possibility of using an orchestra.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as…

— Tony Williams

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

In superficial terms, to have an orchestral career is to be better than others, or at least to be chosen over others on that…

— Stephen Hough

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

— Cecil Taylor