Orchestra Quotes

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them. (Hermann Ebbinghaus)
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. View quote
Max Lucado
Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra. View quote
John Goodman
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. View quote
Itzhak Perlman
Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night. View quote
Adam Schiff
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes. View quote
Chuck Mangione
They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build. View quote
Michael Tilson Thomas
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. View quote
Anton Webern
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? View quote
Robert Fripp
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending. View quote
Robert Fripp
You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. (Navjot Singh Sidhu)
It's like people inviting you to come along to a church service or an amateur orchestra. They're hoping that you'll join. People are recruiters at heart, you know. It makes them feel more comfortable to see the ranks of their particular enthusiasm swelling. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
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. View quote
Jean Sibelius
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. View quote
Asger Jorn
When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session. View quote
Placido Domingo
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance. View quote
Rachel Kushner
The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums. View quote
Brian May
Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
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. View quote
Dave Brubeck
I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section. (Jonny Greenwood)
When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in. View quote
Itzhak Perlman
Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that. View quote
Bobby McFerrin
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway. View quote
Alan J. Pakula
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. View quote
Andres Segovia