Orchestra Quotes

Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.

There is no greater thrill than to sing with a beautiful orchestra.

Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted me in the orchestras.

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 trying to build.

In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there.

I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be swept aside.

My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.

What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies.

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra

I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.

I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra.

I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.

An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.

The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc to lap, a many-legged beast trundling with joy and vision.

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people.

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

I can conduct better than I count.

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.