Orchestra Quotes

Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.

In order to lead the orchestra, you must first turn your back to the crowd.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.

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.

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

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.

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.

Aromatherapy without massage is like an orchestra without a conductor

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.

The guitar is an orchestra in itself.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

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

At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.

A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

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

Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.

To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.

Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here.

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

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.

You can sing only what you are.
You can paint only what you are.
You must be what your experiences,
your environment,
and your heredity have made you.
For better or for worse,
you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients, such as patients with Tourette's syndrome. Music helps them bring their impulses and tics under control. There is even a whole percussion orchestra made up exclusively of Tourette's patients.

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