Top 568 Orchestra Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

No technology comes close to the effect of a live symphony orchestra.

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

In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

To me, my guitar has always been my orchestra.

I studied with Seymour Rosenfeld, who was first trumpeter of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.

I love Unknown Mortal Orchestra, who are from New Zealand, living in Portland.

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

What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies.

I'd have worked with an orchestra, been a chef, or a zoo keeper.

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

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

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

I don't quite think I'm big enough to deserve an orchestra.

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

I've always loved mixing Middle Eastern instruments into a classical orchestra.

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

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

I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.

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

A lot of my music tends to combine electronics and orchestra.

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

You can only learn orchestration if you have the possibility of using an orchestra.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra.

If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.

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

You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

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

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

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

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

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

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

Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody.

In order to lead the orchestra, you must first turn your back to the crowd.

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

I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists, but I don't have a pianist or a drummer.

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

When I was going to high school, in the high school band we would play these kind of hour-long concerts for our parents. All the parents would come to the gymnasium, and the band would play an hour-long kind of orchestra piece. 'Synchestra' is supposed to be similar, like a high school band orchestra piece.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

It was a huge honour to play at the Palladium with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around.

Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.

For an artist, there's nothing better than working with an orchestra.

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

When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

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

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

I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.

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

I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself!

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