Orchestra Quotes - Page 3

• It is when music is added that a film can come to life for a director. A live orchestra, playing the score as a conductor watches the film on a huge screen, often gives a fimmaker the first real glimpse of his soon-to-be-completed work. That's where the magic is.

  Robert Paul Wolff

  Music, Real, Giving

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• I know this music from memory, not from the music.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Memories, Knows

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• He was listening so I don't remember.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Listening, Remember

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• Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Want, Beats

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• It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Remember, Difficult

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• Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Want, Let Me

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• Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Men, Play

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• Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Play, Impossible

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• It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Sibelius, Difficult

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• After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Two, Minutes

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• The next movement is still in the factory.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Movement, Next

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• Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny

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• Think of your girlfriend or boyfriend or whomever you want to.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Girlfriend, Thinking

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• I always feel I do it too slow, but then others do it faster.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Faster, Feels

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• Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Follow Me, Difficult

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• Write it down in your own handwriting.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Writing, Handwriting

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• Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Follow Me, Please

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• The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

  Brian May

  Player, Albums, Nine

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• Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Vices, Cooperation

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• I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Conducting, Tempo

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• Did you play? It sounded very good.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Play, Very Good

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• Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.

  Willie Nelson

  Pieces, Sometimes, Stomach

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• The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

  Jane Byrne

  Symphony, Chicago, World

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• I need one more bass less.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Needs, Bass

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• From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them - electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.

  John Carpenter

  Play, Ideas, Sound

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2011.

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