Best 115 quotes in «orchestra quotes» category

At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

Did you play? It sounded very good.

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.

During the rests - pray.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony.

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.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.

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.

I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud.

I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm capable of and what my limitations are. If you're going to build an orchestra, you don't want all tubas - you want a violin and you want a cello and you want a drum set.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

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

I don't walk on stage unless I'm playing with a orchestra. But when I play a recital, I'm sort of on a scooter, and I just scoot very quickly on stage, and they're saying, wow, look at this. He's so fast.

I'm happy to have interns at The Weekly Standard and happy to have readers of The Weekly Standard, but if you all tell me that you were busy reading Plato and [Lev] Tolstoy and playing violin in the orchestra, I'd say that was great. I wouldn't tell you to take time out from that to get involved in political journalism.

I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to go out and do it. Obviously, we don't carry a 70-80-piece orchestra with us when we do shows.

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.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell you what orchestra it was, I can usually tell you what hall it was in. I can tell you, obviously who the conductor was, and who the composer was.

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians need to read the notes. Otherwise it will be a disaster.

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

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.

It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.

I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.

It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't believe what was going on.

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

It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some of the orchestras do end up enjoying it and having a great time.

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.

Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.

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

Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.