Orchestra Quotes

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.

To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.

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

A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.

Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult.

He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable.

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here.

We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

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

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone.

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

I never thought the orchestra should be big.

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful enough.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

Watch me closely - only one can spoil it.

Something went wrong. It was correct when I studied it.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.