Orchestra Quotes - Page 18

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

Harry Chapin

Guitar, Symphony, Six

Song: Six String Orchestra, 1974

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I got to perform the [Jaques] Ibert Concertino Da Camera with a brilliant pianist at school named Chunga. I got to perform the [Alexander] Glazunov Concerto in senior year with our school orchestra and the Jewish Grossman orchestra. I won a scholarship from the Goldman band to perform the [Paul] Creston Concerto. Which I never played with them, but they still gave me the money.

Jon Gordon

Senior, School, Years

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I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell you what orchestra it was, I can usually tell you what hall it was in. I can tell you, obviously who the conductor was, and who the composer was.

Hans Zimmer

Thinking, Nerd, Pieces

Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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I've always been fascinated by music and sounds. I was lucky to receive proper classical training as an orchestra player and I'm always learning as a composer, looking to create new flavors and colors.

Lior Ron

Player, Color, Training

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If you're not filled back up quickly, you might collapse like a birthday balloon". I guess that's why acting is so addictive. For the director, that addiction will come from the love and trust he gets from the "orchestra", him being the conductor. That's why many directors fall in love with their leading lady/man: having someone say "how do you want me to be" is incredible.

Matthew Jacobs

Falling In Love, Men, Addiction

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Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on? And then you find out that the board members try to run these things as businesses.

Brice Marden

Running, Symphony, Trying

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal with those others from a position of inferiority or helplessness. Teacher, doctors, social workers, or television producers possess more status than most parents.... As a result, the parent today isa maestro trying to conduct an orchestra of players who have never met and who play from a multitude of different scores, each in a notation the conductor cannot read.

Kenneth Keniston

Teacher, Children, Player

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I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.

Warren G. Bennis

Leadership, Running, Thinking

Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the thread through the maze--the soul behind the toil and the crime and longing.

Jeanette Lee

Sea, Joy, Soul

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Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

Alan J. Pakula

Hands, Directors, Use

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When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted me in the orchestras.

Mark Lawrenson

Home, Cows, Fields

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[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

Charles Hazlewood

Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

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

Paul Bocuse

Life Is Too Short, Meals, Opera

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When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

Placido Domingo

Minutes, Session

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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

Lara St. John

Art, Government, Years

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In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

David Amram

Thinking, Feelings, Conducting

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Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

Kurt Masur

Player, Speaks Out, People

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My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

Harry Mathews

Play, Ideas, Paris

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I played cello in my high school orchestra.

Eberhard Weber

School, High School

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Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

Elliott Carter

Writing, Challenges, Problem

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I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.

James Laughlin

Book, Two, Three

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The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

Max Roach

Men, Drummer, Percussion

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So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

Ruggiero Ricci

Play, Firsts, Watches

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

Skitch Henderson

Germany, Munich

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I can conduct better than I count.

Eugene Ormandy

Funny, I Can

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