Famous Quotes & Sayings

All orchestras have problems, and I can see it all over Canada. We just bailed out the Winnipeg orchestra, three years ago,

James Levine

It's 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.

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

Kathleen Battle

I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.

Skitch Henderson

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

Miriam Makeba

I was so scared. Such a big orchestra

Gerry Mulligan

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra

Gerry Mulligan

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

It is extraordinary - the orchestra tells you so much about the stage and what's going on,

Joey Fatone

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

Leonard Slatkin

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

I remember when we did the Tchaikovsky (concerto), he just flew. We weren't used to that. But when we do things like that, it makes the orchestra grow.

Usually when I am approached to do a score for a horror movie, it's to attempt a repeat performance of what I did way back on 'Hellraiser' or 'Jennifer 8' - one of those really orchestral scores.

Marco Beltrami

I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.

Evan Wood

It's like the whole world is this orchestra and I'm the conductor,

Kevin Brownlow

I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself!

John Goodman

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

James Levine

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

James Levine

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.

David Ogden Stiers

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

David Ogden Stiers

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.

Placido Domingo

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

Placido Domingo

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

Leonard Bernstein

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

Rudy Vallee

I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

Walt Whitman

The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them

Willie Nelson

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