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I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music. -- Howard Shore
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. -- Lawrence Welk
Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra. -- Sivamani
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
Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble. -- Charles Hazlewood
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
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
In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change. -- David Amram
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
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. -- Rachel Kushner
Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible. -- Andrea Bocelli
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
Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music. -- Skitch Henderson
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
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
I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry. -- Leon Theremin
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
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
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
There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers and do the orchestra. And then there are great conductors, who have their own opinion on the music, who are ruling everything - and not listening much to the singers, but the orchestra play amazingly. -- Anna Netrebko
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. -- Bernard Williams
I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces. -- Paul Lansky
To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place. -- Jimmy Durante
If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous. -- Gail Zappa
In this vast cosmic orchestra, peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music. -- Amit Ray
Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality. -- Nico Muhly
Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad. -- Nico Muhly
The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful enough. -- George Carlin
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. -- Robert McKee

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