Orchestra Quotes - Page 11

• Max Lucado says that 'A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.' That is true and a man who wants to find out the truth must also do the same thing!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Want, Max

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• Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.

  Nico Muhly

  Writing, Player, Trying

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Differences, Cities, Competition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

  James Levine

  Gestures, Delusion, Conductor

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• Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

  Nico Muhly

  Writing, Emotional, Together

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I never thought the orchestra should be big.

  Alexandre Desplat

  Should, Bigs

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Zubin Mehta

  Men, Long

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• A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Trying, Too Much, Arrogant

  "Anthony Hopkins: 'I've never been really close to anyone'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.

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• I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Thank You, Tunes, Length

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• When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is the orchestra. So you have to launch your emotions very, very far. When you sing pop, you are singing very close - the microphone is very close to your mouth. You can whisper your emotions into the microphone.

  Andrea Bocelli

  People, Singing, Mouths

  "Q&A: On new album, Bocelli celebrates the music of movies". The Associated Press Interview, wtop.com. October 30, 2015.

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• An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Thinking, Government, Firsts

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• 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.

  Robert Fripp

  Different, Railway Station, Ends

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• 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.

  Oliver Sacks

  People, Important, Helping

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

  James Levine

  Needs, Generations, Upheaval

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• 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.

  Howard Keel

  Voice, Numbers, Long

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• Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Swans

  "Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra". Comedy, Music, May 9, 2009.

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• A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

  John Barrymore

  Men, Symphony, Pay

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• Originally I had a block about appearing in a musical. I went to a voice teacher for a while, but that did no good. My range is about one and a half notes. I ended up talking the musical numbers, which was revolutionary at the time. The lyrics are extremely intricate. They move along like a precisely acted scene. If you miss a word - heaven help you - the orchestra rattles past like an express train, and you've got to run like the devil to catch up.

  Rex Harrison

  Running, Teacher, Block

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Lincoln Center, Play, Diversity

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• I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

  Chris Lowe

  Play, People, Waiting

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• There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent
  to a gang bent on destruction.

  John Cage

  People, Gang, Destruction

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• A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think that it is an absolutely extraordinary and bold career move that Darwin has made in leaving the Orchestra and embarking on the trajectory of a solo performer/educator. And what a marvelous thing it is for Detroit to be able to welcome home a successful native son - one in whom the community can take pride, and one who will serve as an inspiration to a younger generation of aspiring performers eager to make their mark in the world.

  David Cerone

  Inspiration, Moving, Home

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• For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.

  Marc Almond

  Song, Guitar, Play

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• His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

  Edmund Wilson

  Life, Inspire, Style

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• Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The image has to be specific. You can't just say to yourself, 'I'll do my best.' You have to have a mental blueprint of that role in your mind.

  Linda Hamilton

  Motivational, Dance, Real

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