Orchestra Quotes

Orchestra Quote of the day

Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

In order to lead the orchestra, you must first turn your back to the crowd.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.

When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.

Aromatherapy without massage is like an orchestra without a conductor

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know

For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony.

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.

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

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

The guitar is an orchestra in itself.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.

A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.