The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.
I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.
You are not alone in the world. You are part of an ensemble.
The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.
Which is why you chose to wear that delightful ensemble from the skank-wear collection at Hoes-n-Thangs?" -Tommy
When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.
One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages.
I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.
When an ensemble is really tight or playing as one, it's a transcendental experience. It is spiritual. It goes beyond the ensemble. Ray and I and Robby and Jim were pretty tight, musically and spiritually.
It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble.
'Friends' was a true ensemble. There really was no star of the show.
The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.
The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.
Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.
It's kind of like, I love doing tons of different things. The only thing I hate is not being in ensembles.
One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.
Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.
I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.
I love being part of an ensemble.
The students were missing out a lot in their ensemble playing because they weren't listening to each other or the environment.
When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.
