“ You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. ”
- Elvis Costello- Copy
- 3K
“ Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ”
- Jimmy Page- Copy
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“ I do movies because I love writing for orchestra though it scares me and the money is good. I can't make a living doing just albums, times are difficult now for geriatric artists. ”
- Randy Newman- Copy
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“ I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion? ”
- Dimitri Mitropoulos- Copy
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“ The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. ”
- Nicholas Meyer- Copy
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“ A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized. ”
- John Barrymore- Copy
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“ There are some other things I'm looking for in the future. I'm getting ready to put together something, to open up a new avenue for myself, having to do with a symphony orchestra. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
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“ On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction. ”
- A. Bartlett Giamatti- Copy
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“ There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. ”
- Thomas Beecham- Copy
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“ Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. ”
- Mae West- Copy
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“ Giving a few dollars to a blind beggar or a destitute orphan may be characterized as charity; a large gift of money to an educational institution or a symphony orchestra is philanthropy. ”
- Carl Bakal- Copy
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“ Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. ”
- George Szell- Copy
- 3K
“ A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. ”
- Max Lucado- Copy
- 3.1K
“ God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. ”
- Julie Harris- Copy
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“ We cannot see that enormous apparatus of force that the modern orchestra represents without feeling the most profound and total disillusion at the paltry acoustic results. Do you know of any sight more ridiculous than that of twenty men furiously bent on redoubling the mewing of a violin? ”
- Luigi Russolo- Copy
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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- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The way I could sell the most records was suggested to me by James Newton Howard, is to do an album of piano instrumentals with orchestra. Put a handsome guy on the cover, give him a name like Brian Hamilton, call it Starstreams and put it out without my name on it. ”
- Randy Newman- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Essentially, the New York Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music. ”
- Zubin Mehta- Copy
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