Orchestral Quotes

Bjork, I'd love to do something with her. I'd love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her.
Ellie Goulding

Love, Crazy, Her

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.
Placido Domingo

Piano, Score, Parts

I feel at home in an orchestral score.
Placido Domingo

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

Writing, Hear, Played

I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.
Serj Tankian

Rock, Stuff, Metal

It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.
Ken Hensley

Work, Group, Both

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
Elvis Costello

Platform, Obscurity, Otherwise

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
Gerry Mulligan

Cannot, Serve, Functions

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
Gerry Mulligan

True, Rather, Band

In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.
James Weldon Johnson

Good, High, Playing

I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.
Danny Elfman

Music, Same, Put

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.
Casey Abrams

Love, Music, Crazy

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

Time, Mind, Might

Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot.
Trevor Rabin

Music, Movies, Perfect

We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.
Mick Ralphs

Music, Simple, Real

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.
Bill Dixon

Small, Group, Within

When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.
Kiri Te Kanawa

Music, Home, Alone

You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.
Anthony Daniels

Thought, Concert, Loath

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.
Agnes Obel

Music, Interested, Symphonic

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician.
Tony Williams

Another, Makes, Playing

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