Orchestras Quotes

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
David Ogden Stiers

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.
David Ogden Stiers

Work, Live, Different

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
Placido Domingo

Nothing, Times, Works

As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.
James Levine

Around, Sure, Generation

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.
Andrew Bird

Real, Together, Two

They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
Idina Menzel

Music, Fun, Serious

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

True, Hard, Play

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Become, Used, Clarity

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.
Danny Elfman

Money, Freedom, Play

Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.
Keith Emerson

Start, Off, Year

People say that having three orchestras is a crazy life, but it's better because you have three families. I want to have my own kids very soon. In future, I still want to conduct a lot, but less, to be with my family.
Gustavo Dudamel

Life, Family, Future

I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.
Gustavo Dudamel

Work, Family, Big

It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Different, Through, Normal

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Music, Time, Nothing

I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.
Bobby McFerrin

Time, Done, Thought

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.
Michael Tilson Thomas

Music, Find, Living

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
Lara St. John

Government, General, Arts

Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
Lara St. John

Money, Down, Problem

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.
Dido Armstrong

Working, Study, Inspired

Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.
Eberhard Weber

Time, Play, Idea

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

Big, House, Hollywood

I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.
Skitch Henderson

Work, Germany, Regular

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.
Skitch Henderson

Become, Almost, Market

While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music.
Skitch Henderson

Music, Money, Two

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
David Del Tredici

Love, Write, Musical

In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.
Jeffrey Tate

Music, Great, Deep

My whole career I have worked with non-Western musicians and different orchestras and ensembles and choirs.
Mychael Danna

Career, Different, Whole

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