Ensemble Quotes

• When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

  David Sanborn

  Play, Nuance, Acoustics

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• If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

  Robert Schumann

  Teamwork, Play, Team Work

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• The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Hands, Design

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1925). “Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete 1925 "Wendingen" Series”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

  Henri Poincare

  Order, Giving, Unity

  "Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics". Book by Rahul Sarpeshkar (p. 3), 2010.

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• Shoes are a big part of your look. I think that if your outfit isn't really something special, then fun footwear is a great way to jazz it up and make your ensemble more interesting.

  Christian Siriano

  Fun, Thinking, Shoes

  "Project Runway's Fiercest Designer Ever". Interview with Leonora Epstein, www.cosmopolitan.com. October29, 2008.

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• It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Perfect, Together

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• It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Interesting, Joy, Collaboration

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

  Eric Bogosian

  Chess, Hard

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• The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

  Michael J. Fox

  Tables, Dinner, Form

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• I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Term, Bland

  Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. November 7, 2012.

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

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Awards, Should, Performances

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

  Devon Sawa

  People, Pieces, New Friends

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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

  Home, London, Royal

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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

  Strong, Thinking, Episodes

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

  Elisabeth Rohm

  Nice, Balls, Casts

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

  James Levine

  Imagine, Company, I Can

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• It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

  Joseph Jarman

  Art, Long, Decision

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• Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.

  Mariah Carey

  Awards, Hair, Fans

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• The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

  Michael J. Fox

  Player, Night, People

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• I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

  Brendan Fraser

  Desire, Groups, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Matt LeBlanc

  Stars, Shows

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• My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.

  Paul Klee

  Uncles, Hero, Eye

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Awards, Guy, Mind

  "The Contender Q&A: Garret Dillahunt". Interview with Paul Gaita, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 17, 2009.

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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

  Epic, Groups, Stories

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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

  Kids, Laughing, Six

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