Best 115 quotes in «orchestra quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

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.

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.

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.

...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.

One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

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.

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.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.

Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where leadership is passed around ... depending on what the music demands at the moment and who feels most moved by the spirit to express the music.

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.

That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.

The big turning point came when I played in the pit orchestra for a production of SWEENEY TODD and I spent most of the time watching the play instead of playing the score! And that's when I knew I had it bad for acting.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know

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.

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

There is no greater thrill than to sing with a beautiful orchestra.

There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

En el aspecto social, la inclusión es el principio básico. Nuestro lema son los pobres primero y para los pobres los mejores instrumentos, los mejores maestros, las mejores infraestructuras. La cultura para los pobres no puede ser una pobre cultura. Debe ser grande, ambiciosa, refinada, avanzada, nada de sobras. Además, ellos multiplican su efecto, porque son enormemente agradecidos ante el esfuerzo. No es práctico incorporar a su vida esa faceta como si fuera un florero.

Watch me closely - only one can spoil it.