quotes 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 HovhanessSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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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 -
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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 WebernSource : Letter to Alban Berg, "Anton von Webern" by Malcolm Hayes, (p. 71), 1995.
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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 -
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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 JornSource : "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 166), 2002.
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 StiersSource : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
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Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
-- David Ogden StiersSource : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
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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 -
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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 -
With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen -
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I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
The next movement is still in the factory.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
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Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?
-- Eugene Ormandy -
Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
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Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
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Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?
-- Eugene Ormandy -
Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
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I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
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Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
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I always feel I do it too slow, but then others do it faster.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
I know this music from memory, not from the music.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
That's the way it was every time I studied it.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
Something went wrong. It was correct when I studied it.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
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After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
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I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
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We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
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I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
It has no rhythm, but it will because it's so much faster.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.
-- Eugene Ormandy -
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I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.
-- Evelyn Glennie -
In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.
-- Fernand Point -
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
-- George SzellSource : Newsweek 28 Jan. 1963
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The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing
-- Gerry Mulligan -
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The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra
-- Gerry Mulligan -
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra
-- Gerry Mulligan -
I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.
-- Gunther SchullerSource : "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.
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Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.
-- Gustav Mahler -
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Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.
-- Gustavo Dudamel -
My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.
-- Gustavo DudamelSource : "Gustavo Dudamel and London: a special relationship" by Marshall Marcus, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2012.
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With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.
-- Gustavo Dudamel -
I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.
-- Gustavo DudamelSource : "Land of hope and glory" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2006.
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The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
-- Harry Chapin -
Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.
-- Harry Connick, Jr. -
These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.
-- Herbert Read -
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.
-- Howard ShoreSource : "Score one for originality" by Chuck Crisafulli, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2006.
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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.
-- Itzhak Perlman -
We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.
-- J. Boone -
I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest
-- James LevineSource : "Staying power". www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2000.
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Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.
-- James Levine -
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There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.
-- James Levine -
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.
-- James Levine -
Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
-- Jason Bateman -
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.
-- Jean SibeliusSource : Jean Sibelius' remarks to Jussi Jalas, August 27, 1943.
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