Orchestra Quotes - Page 13

• And your dinner for the orchestra officials." "Haven't you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to make do with what's in the fridge, Clarice. May I call you Clarice?

  Thomas Harris

  People, May, Dinner

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.60, Macmillan

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• I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Crafts, Masters, Forthcoming

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Benefits, Concerts

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• 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.

  Serj Tankian

  Art, Musician, Classical Music

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• I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself!

  Kevin Brownlow

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• Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

  David Del Tredici

  Writing, Symphony, Musical

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• While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music.

  Skitch Henderson

  Two, Looks, Golden

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• It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

  Leila Josefowicz

  Nice, Majority, Attention

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• Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

  Rachel Kushner

  Romantic Music, Piano, Flutes

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• Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.

  Kurt Masur

  Beautiful, Play, Ideas

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• Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Play, Musician

  Robert Schumann (1986). “Schumann: a self-portrait in his own words”

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

  McCoy Tyner

  Piano, Instruments, Fortunate

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• I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was headed back east to study music, and if I hadn't been intrigued with the Native American flute, I suppose I'd now be jockeying for first chair of the brass section of some orchestra, or perhaps I'd be teaching music in a school system.

  R. Carlos Nakai

  Teaching, Native American, School

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• 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.

  Donald O'Connor

  Years, Laughing, Littles

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• It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't believe what was going on.

  Jon Brion

  Fun, Believe, Musician

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• Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Thinking, Terrible, Let Me

  "Domingo And Bocelli: Keeping Opera Relevant". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 21, 2008.

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• Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Don't forget I was only eleven-years-old and to be on the stage at that age had tremendous impact on me. Basically love for classical music and performing as a kid on the big stage probably led toward this decision, which meant that music is going to be my big love but also my profession.

  Herbie Hancock

  Kids, Impact, Years

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• ...Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our delight and satisfaction, and has availed himself with distinction.

  Zubin Mehta

  Israel, Satisfaction, Delight

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• The Russians were all really accommodating, and that made it really special. To be allowed in Catherine's Summer Palace...Lily [James] and I have this scene where we fall in love and we waltz up and down this enormous gold hall with thousands of candles and a live orchestra and 300 Russian extras. To do those scenes in situ really meant it was a once-in-a-lifetime job.

  James Norton

  Summer, Falling In Love, Jobs

  "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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• My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall, and the orchestra was playing. When the show started, the spotlight was sharp on this one man (Andres Segovia) and he had sombrero on and his guitar propped up like this and, oh man ... he was a master ! - I really heard it. That one guitar sounded like a whole orchestra to me.

  B. B. King

  Music, Nice, Men

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• If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.

  Gail Zappa

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Being a part of the crowd with incredible musicians onstage summoning the muse and delivering that to us - doesn't matter if it's an orchestra, two bluegrass banjo pickers, a solo singer, piano player, or Bruce Springsteen - when it all comes together, you can just feel as if you are a part of something bigger and grander than yourself.

  Patrick Fabian

  Player, Two, Piano

  "Actor Patrick Fabian: The power of live music and being connected to emotions". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, patrickfabian.com.

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• Every time that I hear the orchestra tuning up, I get chills all over my body. You know, catharsis after catharsis. It's better than sex!

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Sex, Body, Tuning

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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

  Dave Brubeck

  Piano Music, Jazz, Whole

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• They don't encourage quality today. When I was coming along, Columbia Records would sit with you and assume it would take two or three albums to get the act where it needed to be. Then the company would structure its promotion based on one, two or three years. They encouraged quality and innovation - that's why groups like the Beatles would use sitars, string orchestras and so forth.

  Ramsey Lewis

  Two, Years, Innovation

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