Orchestra Quotes - Page 2

The guitar is an orchestra in itself.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.

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

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

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.

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

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

I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.

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

Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult.

A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.

To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.

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

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

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here.

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.