Orchestra Quotes - page 2

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)
In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments. View quote
Artur Rodzinski
When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers. View quote
Bobby Vinton
New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section. View quote
Barbara Cook
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. View quote
David Amram
And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away. View quote
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years. View quote
Donald O'Connor
Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album. View quote
Dweezil Zappa
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships. View quote
Eberhard Weber
I played cello in my high school orchestra. View quote
Eberhard Weber
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. (George Szell)
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra. View quote
Gerry Mulligan
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. View quote
Gerry Mulligan
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra. View quote
Gerry Mulligan
With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community. View quote
Gustavo Dudamel
I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music. View quote
Gustavo Dudamel
As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra. View quote
Howard Keel
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris. View quote
Harry Mathews
I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra. View quote
James Laughlin
If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra. View quote
Joey Fatone
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. (Julie Harris)
Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit. View quote
Kid Koala
An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster. View quote
Kurt Masur
I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor. View quote
Kurt Masur
I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy. View quote
Kurt Masur