Orchestra Quotes
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Orchestra Quotes & Sayings
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I always feel I do it too slow, but then others do it faster.
— Eugene Ormandy
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.
— Howard Shore
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Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.
— Sarah Caldwell
This is one bar you should take home.
— Eugene Ormandy
We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.
— William Ralph Inge
Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.
— Eugene Ormandy
An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.
— Kurt Masur
I played cello in my high school orchestra.
— Eberhard Weber
I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.
— Kurt Masur
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
— Leonard Bernstein
I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.
— Skitch Henderson
It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.
— Geraldine Ferraro
Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished
— Esme Raji Codell
The guitar is an orchestra in itself.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.
— Thomas Beecham
I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.
— James Levine
The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them
— Walt Whitman
Roque always did dress up a place. Unfortunately he's got the taste of a ninety-year-old orchestra first chair.
— Pierce Brown
The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Watch me closely - only one can spoil it.
— Eugene Ormandy
I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.
— Olivia Newton-John
A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.
— Anthony Hopkins
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.
— Lawrence Welk
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction. — John Cage
I never thought the orchestra should be big.
— Alexandre Desplat
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.
— Paul Bocuse
A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.
— Zubin Mehta
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.
— Gerry Mulligan
The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
— Harry Chapin
Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.
— Eugene Ormandy
We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.
— Eugene Ormandy
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
— Cecil Taylor
Marital sex is a divine sympony between two people , and God is leading the orchestra .
— Osunsakin Adewale
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He was listening so I don't remember.
— Eugene Ormandy
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
— Barbra Streisand
The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.
— Herbert Von Karajan
This women's orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet and gold.
— Bailey Bristol
Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.
— Eugene Ormandy
It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.
— Eugene Ormandy
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
— Halford Luccock
Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.
— Anthony Daniels
Music Doesn't Need Interpreters and Translators
— Ellen J. Barrier
My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.
— Eddie Trunk
Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
— David Ogden Stiers
The conductor of an orchestra doesn't make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
— Benjamin Zander
Start three bars before something.
— Eugene Ormandy
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.
— Alan J. Pakula
I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.
— Eugene Ormandy
New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there.
— Kristin Chenoweth
That one has more brass than an orchestra and more nerve than a sore tooth. So I sincerely doubt I make her nervous.
— Anne Bishop
We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra.
— Kane Freeman
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
What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies.
— Milton Berle
Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
— John Goodman
I have sat in with the Burbank Philharmonic and the Topanga Orchestra when they need someone if someone gets sick or something.
— Torrey DeVitto
The wind was still making an orchestra out of the tent. But it wasn't a requiem anymore.
— Kate Tempest
One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist.
— Bronislaw Huberman
Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.
— Gustavo Dudamel
I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud.
— Eugene Ormandy
Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.
— Eugene Ormandy
Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?
— Eugene Ormandy
And what good's a life that leaves nothing behind/Not a thought or a dream that might echo in time.
— Trans-Siberian Orchestra
I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra.
— Billy Porter
A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.
— John Barrymore
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
— Leonard Slatkin
The piano is an orchestra with 88 ... things, you know
— Vladimir Horowitz
I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself!
— Kevin Brownlow
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.
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
Who is sitting in that empty chair?
— Eugene Ormandy
Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.
— Eugene Ormandy
A dean is the conductor of an orchestra made up entirely of composers.
— Mark William Roche
When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra.
— Laura Erickson
The cold is getting quite severe already; all the quail have gone, and last night there was a full orchestra of wolves outside the post-station.
— Clive Phillipps-Wolley
Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.
— Willie Nelson
Brass, stay down all summer.
— Eugene Ormandy
After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.
— Eugene Ormandy
The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
— Chick Corea
I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
— Burt Bacharach
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You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.
— Adam Mickiewicz
Band geeks are the original," I explain. "Orchestra dorks are simply copying our amazingly uncool status.
— Sarah Tregay
There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.
— Leonard Slatkin
I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.
— Andrea Bocelli
I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.
— Evelyn Glennie
