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I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me. -- David Ogden Stiers
Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners. -- Allan Kozinn
Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish. -- Bill Bailey
Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition. -- George Bernard Shaw
Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea. -- Eberhard Weber
I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European. -- Zubin Mehta
I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras. -- Zubin Mehta
I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras. -- Skitch Henderson
I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras. -- Dido Armstrong
When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do. -- Placido Domingo
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. -- Zubin Mehta
They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me. -- Idina Menzel
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. -- Serj Tankian
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. -- David Ogden Stiers
I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras in Hollywood. -- John Williams
I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible. -- Laura Mvula
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. -- Jonny Greenwood
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. -- Andrew Bird
It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings. -- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
It is very gratifying to see the music from 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy find a new life on the concert stage as it is performed by different orchestras and choruses throughout the world. -- Howard Shore
While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music. -- Skitch Henderson
I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff. Which I'm really grateful for - it's pretty nice being introduced to that when you're little. -- Courtney Barnett
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
I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras. -- Bobby McFerrin
What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It's not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It's all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play. -- Jonny Greenwood
And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away. -- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep. -- Jeffrey Tate
It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing. -- Zubin Mehta
To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft. -- Quincy Jones
Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market. -- Skitch Henderson
I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras. -- Bryan Ferry
We still listen to the original lush arrangements with the orchestras. -- Jane Lynch
I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family. -- Gustavo Dudamel
I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios. -- Skitch Henderson
For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general. -- Lara St. John
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. -- David Del Tredici
Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality. -- Lara St. John
Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with. -- Keith Emerson
With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll? -- Joan Jett
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. -- Laurence Equilbey
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. -- Mark Lawrenson
As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation. -- James Levine
The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz - because this is a national treasure. -- Lee Morgan
I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful. -- Jean Sibelius
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy. -- Jeffrey Tate
The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
There was a time, from 1935-1946, when teenagers and young adults danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and when influential clarinettists were household names. This was the swing era. -- Scott Yanow
To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be. -- Robertson Davies

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