Orchestra Quotes

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.

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.

During the rests - pray.

I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud.

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

Who is sitting in that empty chair?

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

I always feel I do it too slow, but then others do it faster.

It has no rhythm, but it will because it's so much faster.

Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.

I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.

After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.

Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.

I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.

I need one more bass less.

Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.

Brass, stay down all summer.

It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.

More basses, because you are so far away.

Did you play? It sounded very good.

That's the way it was every time I studied it.

Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.

He was listening so I don't remember.

The next movement is still in the factory.

Someone came too sooner.

It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra

I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some of the orchestras do end up enjoying it and having a great time.

We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers.