Music Quote by Yoon Ha Lee

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

— Henry Mancini

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

— Cecil Taylor

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

— Krzysztof Penderecki

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

— Simon Rattle

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

— Colin Wilson

It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some…

— Ian Anderson

Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable…

— Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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

— Kurt Masur

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

“To play in an orchestra, we need not master every instrument. We must simply learn to play our own. But first, we must learn…

— Vironika Tugaleva

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

— Howard Shore

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

— Ludwig Goransson