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I feel at home in an orchestral score. -- Placido Domingo
The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me. -- Agnes Obel
It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group. -- Ken Hensley
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing. -- Gerry Mulligan
I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction. -- Placido Domingo
The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album. -- Gerard Way
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. -- Elvis Costello
It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. -- Gerry Mulligan
Bjork, I'd love to do something with her. I'd love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her. -- Ellie Goulding
You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought. -- Anthony Daniels
I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things. -- Casey Abrams
I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish. -- Trey Anastasio
Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.' -- Chris Squire
If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out. -- Serj Tankian
I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka. -- Serj Tankian
When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings. -- Kiri Te Kanawa
It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour. -- Charles Hazlewood
In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms. -- James Weldon Johnson
Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot. -- Trevor Rabin
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time. -- Peter Maxwell Davies
I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician. -- Tony Williams
Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream. -- Charles Hazlewood
I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference. -- Danny Elfman
I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff. -- Bat for Lashes
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities. -- Brian Eno
When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers up, my heart always sinks a little bit, and I think, 'It's going to be down to some sound guy's ideas.' Contact microphones on the violins. I'm a purist, I suppose. -- Jonny Greenwood
Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops... -- Jon Champion
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing -- Gerry Mulligan
'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album. -- Gerard Way
My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things. -- Andrae Crouch
I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music. -- Tod Machover
Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility. -- Bill Dixon
One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there. -- John Kinsella
I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows. -- Leonard Cohen

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