Orchestra Quotes

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

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

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

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

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

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

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

Show me an orchestra that likes its conductor and I'll show you a lousy conductor.

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

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?

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.