Quotes and Sayings About Orchestra
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You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.
-- Adam Mickiewicz -
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
-- Alan Hovhaness -
May night continue to fall upon the orchestra
-- Andre Breton -
Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.
-- Anthony Daniels -
A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.
-- Anton Webern -
In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.
-- Artur Rodzinski -
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.
-- Artur Rodzinski -
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces... It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.
-- Asger Jorn -
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
-- Barbra Streisand -
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
-- Benjamin Zander -
[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
-- Bette Midler -
The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
-- Billie Holiday -
The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
-- Brian May -
One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist.
-- Bronislaw Huberman -
I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
-- Burt Bacharach -
It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.
-- Dave Brubeck -
It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.
-- Dave Brubeck -
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.
-- David Amram -
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.
-- David Del Tredici -
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.
-- David Ogden Stiers -
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
-- David Ogden Stiers -
Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
-- David Ogden Stiers -
I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.
-- Dido Armstrong -
I played cello in my high school orchestra.
-- Eberhard Weber -
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
-- Edmund Wilson -
I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
-- Edwin Land -
Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
-- Elliott Carter -
Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen
