Community Quote by Simon Rattle Download Open image “Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community.” — Simon Rattle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Embodiment Like Like People Orchestras Orchestras Like People People Sonic Sonic Embodiment
With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community. — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction. — John Cage Copy Share Image
They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough to be in this amazing band, and to me, a band is really a collaborative unit, and that's definitely been… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me. — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
I am old enough to remember the enormous fight over Tate Modern. It is such a part of our cultural landscape now, we forget… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
There are a few great orchestras in the world, thank goodness. Although some people do put them in ranking order, it's not like a… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
The grapevine in England is an extraordinary thing. When there is a really brilliant young composer or soloist, we all hear about it. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
With these big Wagner pieces, if I haven't started three years before, I'm screwed. You need time to look at the piece again and… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
The music lovers of London and the country deserve to have something where orchestras can flourish. You have no idea how wonderful an orchestra… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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