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Ensemble Quotes

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The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.
Elvin Jones

Authors on Ensemble Quotes: Pauline Oliveros Sylvester Stallone Nina Garcia Geoff Zanelli Ansel Elgort Morris Chestnut Fred Willard Faith Prince Steven Bochco Cillian Murphy Jeffrey Tambor Lena Headey Topher Grace David Hyde Pierce John Densmore Lauren Graham Arnaud Desplechin Matt LeBlanc Patricia Heaton Lester Bowie Zendaya Roland Emmerich Bill Condon Matthew Perry George Saunders Trevor Nunn David Morse John Hurt Katherine Shindle Whoopi Goldberg Horace Silver Edie Falco Henry Petroski
2.
I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.
Zoe Saldana

3.
You are not alone in the world. You are part of an ensemble.
Rich Mullins

4.
The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.
Michael J. Fox

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Which is why you chose to wear that delightful ensemble from the skank-wear collection at Hoes-n-Thangs?" -Tommy
Christopher Moore

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One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages.
Morris Chestnut

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When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.
Whoopi Goldberg

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When an ensemble is really tight or playing as one, it's a transcendental experience. It is spiritual. It goes beyond the ensemble. Ray and I and Robby and Jim were pretty tight, musically and spiritually.
John Densmore

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I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.
Matthew Perry

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The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.
Jeffrey Tambor

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Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
Eric Bogosian

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'Friends' was a true ensemble. There really was no star of the show.
Matt LeBlanc

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All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.
Henry Petroski

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The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.
Horace Silver

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One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
Ted Danson

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It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off
Fred Willard

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When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.
Paul Weller

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Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends.
Devon Sawa

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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
Gavin Bryars

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If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.
Gerry Mulligan

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It's really nice to pass the ball when you're in an ensemble cast.
Elisabeth Rohm

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I love being part of an ensemble.
Rashida Jones

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It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
Zooey Deschanel

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I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.
Ryan Phillippe

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It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble.
Nina Garcia

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I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.
Melissa Rosenberg

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The students were missing out a lot in their ensemble playing because they weren't listening to each other or the environment.
Pauline Oliveros

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Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.
Steven Bochco

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It's kind of like, I love doing tons of different things. The only thing I hate is not being in ensembles.
Topher Grace

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I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.
David Hyde Pierce

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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
Patricia Heaton

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From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
Bill Condon

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I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura

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Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.
Trevor Nunn

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I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.
James Levine

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I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.
Sylvester Stallone

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We want an ensemble of stars, not comets.
Rudolf Bing

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A lot of times, working in stand up, youre by yourself ,and so you just have to rely on yourself only but I like working in an ensemble.
Josh McDermitt

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It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable
Cillian Murphy

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I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but not just one individual doing the whole movie.
Fedor Bondarchuk

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Bob Weiss

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I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble.
Sylvester Stallone

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It's one thing to be a perfectionist when you're alone, but when you're trying to make it work in an ensemble that's a whole different deal.
George Saunders

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It's very hard to find a good comedy. I prefer doing comedy far over anything else because I think they're actually more profound. But finding a good one and a great ensemble is very difficult to do and I'm delighted that in these particular times there is so much interest in comedy and that comedy is having so much success.
Sigourney Weaver

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I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument.
Thalia Zedek

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I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.
Lester Bowie

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[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say.
Pauline Oliveros

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I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.
Andy Samberg

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I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.
Spike Lee

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In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.
Geoff Zanelli