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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. -- Max Lucado
Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth. -- Sarah Caldwell
My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it. -- Eddie Trunk
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. -- Andres Segovia
An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place. -- Daniel Barenboim
I have sat in with the Burbank Philharmonic and the Topanga Orchestra when they need someone if someone gets sick or something. -- Torrey DeVitto
The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums. -- Brian May
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. -- Mae West
Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations. -- Leonard Slatkin
The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly. -- Nate Ruess
I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies. -- Daniel Barenboim
I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music. -- Charles Hazlewood
In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not. -- Wynton Marsalis
Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it. -- James Nesbitt
I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible. -- Alexander McCall Smith
I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life. -- Gunther Schuller
...Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our delight and satisfaction, and has availed himself with distinction. -- Zubin Mehta
Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score. -- Mark Mothersbaugh
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. -- Dave Bidini
My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication. -- Gustavo Dudamel
American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings. -- Kate Christensen
Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself. -- Eberhard Weber
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. -- Bobby Vinton
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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras. -- Zubin Mehta
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 from it in the mind of its creator and native to it from the hour of its birth. -- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
In the restaurant business, as opposed to the theater, center orchestra is an 8 P. M. reservation. Orchestra on the side is 7 or 8:30. Mezzanine is 6 and 9. But people don't take it personally when they call the theater and can't get what they want. -- Danny Meyer
The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference. -- Lorin Maazel
I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a piano teacher and a painter, so it was kind of a creative environment, and it was kind of in my DNA. -- Trevor Rabin
New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section. -- Barbara Cook
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world. -- Alexander McCall Smith
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world. -- Alexander McCall Smith
I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid passion. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment sound great in the Albert Hall, and the Glyndebourne cast is fabulous. -- Charles Hazlewood
I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was. -- Dave Brubeck
The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face. -- Stephen Fry
He was listening so I don't remember. -- Eugene Ormandy
Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult. -- Eugene Ormandy
Watch me closely - only one can spoil it. -- Eugene Ormandy
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra. -- Cecil Taylor
It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect. -- Eugene Ormandy
Don't think you are looking at me because you are not. -- Eugene Ormandy
The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world. -- Jane Byrne
We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow. -- Eugene Ormandy
It has no rhythm, but it will because it's so much faster. -- Eugene Ormandy
I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud. -- Eugene Ormandy
We have to play it longer because there are no numbers or letters. -- Eugene Ormandy
Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit. -- Kid Koala
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. -- George Szell
Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas. -- Walt Disney
It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is. -- Eugene Ormandy
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. -- Leonard Bernstein
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. -- Zubin Mehta
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. -- Thomas Beecham
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. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them, electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting. -- John Carpenter
It is when music is added that a film can come to life for a director. A live orchestra, playing the score as a conductor watches the film on a huge screen, often gives a fimmaker the first real glimpse of his soon-to-be-completed work. That's where the magic is. -- Robert Paul Wolff
If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra. -- Joey Fatone
You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. -- Navjot Singh Sidhu
You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character. -- Kurt Masur
The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed. -- Chick Corea
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers. -- Leonard Slatkin
How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? -- Desmond Tutu
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. -- Itzhak Perlman
Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he gives us. -- Christian Dior
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. -- Robert Schumann
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes. -- Chuck Mangione
The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and adds to the complex beauty of the symphony. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending. -- Robert Fripp
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? -- Robert Fripp
Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music. -- Nobuo Uematsu
The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex. -- Gerald Edelman
I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music. -- Gustavo Dudamel
My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time. -- Bjork
It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine. -- Tori Amos
The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie... keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies - it soars in a way that's really magical. -- Al Jarreau
When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret. -- Emilia Fox
I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands. It's very old and traditional, but then, so is an orchestra and so is a string section. -- Jonny Greenwood
I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band. -- Damien Chazelle
My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass. -- Afrika Bambaataa
The guitar is an orchestra in itself. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
I played cello in my high school orchestra. -- Eberhard Weber
May night continue to fall upon the orchestra -- Andre Breton
The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra. -- Max Roach
I never thought the orchestra should be big. -- Alexandre Desplat
An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster. -- Kurt Masur
It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. -- Dave Brubeck
Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra. -- John Goodman
When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30. -- Les Baxter
The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know -- Vladimir Horowitz
I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself! -- Kevin Brownlow
I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice. -- James Levine
In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments. -- Artur Rodzinski
Aromatherapy without massage is like an orchestra without a conductor -- Robert Tisserand
You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies. -- Adam Mickiewicz
The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra. -- Zubin Mehta
Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach. -- Willie Nelson
I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin. -- Edwin Land
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. -- Leonard Bernstein
With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community. -- Gustavo Dudamel
There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do. -- James Levine
In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist. -- Fernand Point
In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it -- Paul Fournel
Destiny is that grand orchestra on whose melodies dance steps of our life. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem. -- Elliott Carter
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. -- Bernard Williams
Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit. -- Kid Koala
For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony, -- Jean Sibelius
I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest -- James Levine
When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session. -- Placido Domingo
Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor. -- Jason Bateman
I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music. -- Howard Shore
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. -- Halford Luccock
I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest. -- James Levine
I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios. -- Skitch Henderson
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra -- Gerry Mulligan
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing -- Gerry Mulligan
We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra. -- Kane Freeman
One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist. -- Bronislaw Huberman
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. -- Gerry Mulligan

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