Orchestra Quotes

Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

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

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.

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

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.

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.

Aromatherapy without massage is like an orchestra without a conductor

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

Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God.

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

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

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

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