#orchestra

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. ↗

— Max Lucado

#back #crowd #his #lead #man

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#carnegie hall #comes #concerto #done #feel

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record. ↗

— Teddy Wilson

#concert #concert hall #get #hall #hear

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine. ↗

— Tori Amos

#calling #conductor #creature #dragon #entity

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#context #dreamed #everything #finish #hear

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#dramatic #elements #even #got #i

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#big studios #demise #hollywood #house #i

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

— Goddard Lieberson

#i #likes #lousy #me #orchestra

My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around. ↗

— Louis Prima

#band #because #brother #followed #his

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar. ↗

— Marc Almond

#acoustic #acoustic guitar #always #classic #comes