Top 916 Symphony Orchestra Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

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

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

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

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

I never thought the orchestra should be big.

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

A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.

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

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

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

Western classical music is participative. Look at the number of people who are involved in a symphony.

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

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

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

I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself!

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

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

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.

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

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

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

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

The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.

To me, my guitar has always been my orchestra.

When I was just coming up, I always wanted to be able to perform to a large crowd with a symphony.

Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life.

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

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

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

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

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

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

I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony.

I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

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

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

'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the biggest hip-hop records of all time once you actually analyse it.

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

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

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

You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.

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.

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

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

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

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

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

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

It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.

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

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

When I was five, I heard the end of Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony' with my mother, and I got goosebumps all over my body.

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

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