Orchestra Quotes

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
- Max Lucado

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the
secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra,
following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.
- Artur Rodzinski

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

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra,
the house orchestras of the big studios.
- Skitch Henderson

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra.
Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?
- Dimitri Mitropoulos

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.
- Trevor Horn

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music -
maybe even toned down with an orchestra -
you are enjoying the spirit of the black race.
And that's what I emphasize to the students.
- Warren Jeffs

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam
across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that
big black space where the audience is.
- Mae West

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
- Cecil Taylor

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra -
not choreography to the audience.
- George Szell

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.
- Kurt Masur

There are two golden rules for an orchestra:
start together and finish together.
The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
- Thomas Beecham

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.
- Navjot Singh Sidhu

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and
perhaps play in an orchestra first,
so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with
a little training in Paris.
- Harry Mathews

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

He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth,
and shaking his head and I thought, gosh,
is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong?
It was just unbelievable.
- Robert Ripley

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.
- Jane Byrne

When you hear a large symphony orchestra.
for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big,
sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.
- Teddy Wilson

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats
feature film and the third week of September I go to London,
and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.
- Mark Mothersbaugh

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize,
when you have 20 people playing a violin line,
that is very different than one person playing that line.
- David Del Tredici

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent
musical sounds that has ever existed.
- Chick Corea

Show me an orchestra that likes its conductor and I'll
show you a lousy conductor.
- Goddard Lieberson

I don't feel that the conductor has real power.
The orchestra has the power, and every member of it
knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.
- Itzhak Perlman

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.
- James Levine

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

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because
every orchestra has a different character.
- Kurt Masur

As long as I can sing halfway decent,
I'd rather sing than act.
There's nothing like being in good voice,
feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.
- Howard Keel

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

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

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
- Elliott Carter

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

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

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

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.
- Kurt Masur

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it,
but the director's somehow trying to work the whole
thing into a much bigger picture.
It's like conducting an orchestra.
- Roland Joffe

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play
together is not enough for a conductor.
- Kurt Masur

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto
to any great extent in the orchestra.
- Gerry Mulligan

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16.
I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before,
and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.
- Kurt Masur

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra,
I get 30.
- Les Baxter

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

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one.
We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist
might training for an orchestra.
- Anne Rice

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.
- George Shearing

The guitar is a small orchestra.
It is polyphonic.
Every string is a different color, a different voice.
- Andres Segovia

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

The shows are so different from each other,
depending on whether I play with my band,
Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra,
only one or two members of my band.
- Lisa Loeb

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.
- James Levine

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra.
It's a collaborative adventure.
- Nicholas Meyer

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all.
That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra
and I are trying to build.
- Michael Tilson Thomas

I had a big background in listening to classical music
and I started trying to compose,
like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.
- John Fahey

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony
orchestra into the kind of dynamic,
rhythmic thing.
- Gerry Mulligan

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do
a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
- David Ogden Stiers

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.
- Kurt Masur

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these
days and get in the studio with like,
a real orchestra.
I'm a big musical theatre geek.
- Mandy Moore

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have
gotten over my initial astonishment.
As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where
I don't think sex plays much part.
- Nadia Boulanger

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more
than 20 minutes per recording session.
- Placido Domingo

I played cello in my high school orchestra.
- Eberhard Weber

I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra,
and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
- Burt Bacharach

I do read everything that we publish.
We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on.
So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.
- James Laughlin

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in
Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements
who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.
- Jello Biafra

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious.
I would consider doing a show now and then,
like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.
- Vanessa Carlton

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

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
- John Goodman

At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio,
with one leap from the back of the orchestra,
found himself in the front rows.
With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head.
With a third, he landed on the stage.
- Carlo Collodi

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

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 body is an instrument which
only gives off music when it is used as a body.
Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls,
so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.
- Anais Nin

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.
- Jonny Greenwood

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice,
which I've done all my life, and not to be able to
phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy,
I think I would be totally devastated.
- Barbara Walters

My brother Leon started it all.
He played the piano.
In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin,
but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.
- Louis Prima

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the
audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on.
Particularly in the theater, where you have costume,
story, acting, orchestra.
- Stephen Sondheim

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.
- Lara St.
John

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