Orchestra Quotes - Page 3

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients, such as patients with Tourette's syndrome. Music helps them bring their impulses and tics under control. There is even a whole percussion orchestra made up exclusively of Tourette's patients.

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

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

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

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

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

Watch me closely - only one can spoil it.

Something went wrong. It was correct when I studied it.

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

I never thought the orchestra should be big.

I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

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

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

When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted me in the orchestras.