Orchestra Quotes - Page 15

• It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians need to read the notes. Otherwise it will be a disaster.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Exercise, Symphony, Practice

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

  Bryan Ferry

  Track, Together, Sound

  "Bryan Ferry Talks New Solo Album, Roxy Music". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.

  Anna Meredith

  Lovely, Gestures, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

  Glenn Branca

  Guitar, Play, Symphony

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and I just did this Offenbach operetta at the LA Opera. I love it. I just love it. For me, it's like a great mesh of musical theatre and my classical oboe background to be standing on these huge stages with a full orchestra and all the opulence. I'm a complete sucker for the over-the-topness.

  Jason Graae

  Musical, Theatre, Oboes

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• And he [Louis Brandeis] talks to his young acolyte, Horace Kallen, who wrote this beautiful book called Cultural Pluralism, and he comes to believe that by being better Jews, or better members of our ethnic group, we can be better Americans, because America is like an orchestra in which identity is defined by the diversity of perspectives that we bring to the table.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Beautiful, Believe, Book

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The big turning point came when I played in the pit orchestra for a production of SWEENEY TODD and I spent most of the time watching the play instead of playing the score! And that's when I knew I had it bad for acting.

  John Cariani

  Play, Acting, Pits

  "It's ALMOST, MAINE for John Cariani!!!". Interview with TJ Fitzgerald, www.broadwayworld.com. January 4, 2006.

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• I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Symphony, Excited, Kalamazoo

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• I am lucky to have the greatest band and when you add a symphony orchestra to the mix it brings all of my songs to a whole new level. I wouldn't say I really change what I do but, having those talented musicians behind me, along with my band, really makes the songs so much bigger and more fun to sing.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, Fun, Symphony

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Voice, People, Use

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• If an ensemble - I don't care if it's a duet or a forty-piece orchestra - the musicians, the two of them or the forty of them, are all trying to play as tight as possible, as one person. They're trying to play like they are one person.

  John Densmore

  Play, Two, Trying

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I studied music all the way through college, but as soon as I graduated from university, I got straight into London and got straight into film music. So really my experiences have been being around the orchestras in London and being around the people who work in film music.

  Steven Price

  College, People, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Guy

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• I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy.

  Kurt Masur

  People, Shy, Reception

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• I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.

  Trevor Horn

  Play, Horny, Taste

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• There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

  James Levine

  Gestures

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• Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.

  Lara St. John

  Player, Cards, Green

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• If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Missing You, Enough

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• I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to use the textures of those intimate groups.

  Steven Price

  Able, Groups, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• What makes games so exciting is that's a whole other- there's all sorts of other considerations on what music is supposed to achieve and what you're attempting to support, it's not uncommon to think of your music and to think of the way your orchestra plays for something like Jack and Daxter where you start with- you know because it has to change tempo and intensity as the action gets more intense.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Thinking, Games, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• The will and self are ultimately dynamic, they are their actions. This energy can be trained and directed, tuned like an orchestra. It is not a matter of a "rational interior" that poses a problem for a decorator, rather a feng-shui intelligence is called for that orients the "house" to the flow of life that takes place in it (I rather suspect this is turned on its head in most cases of feng-shui, i.e. Americans capitulate once again to "experts").

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Self, House

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• The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.

  Thomas Beecham

  Music, Player, Upset

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• Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds!

  R. Murray Schafer

  Lying, Musician, Sound

  R. Murray Schafer (1977). “The Tuning of the World”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

  Roland Joffe

  Trying, Directors, Actors

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• Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Believe, Awful

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