Orchestra Quotations | Page 3

I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.

It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some of the orchestras do end up enjoying it and having a great time.

After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.

Did you play? It sounded very good.

Start at B. Yes. No. Yes. No.

Start three bars before something.

Someone came too sooner.

A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.

What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies.

If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.

I conduct faster so you can see my beat.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

Who is sitting in that empty chair?

Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.

Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.

Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?

I always feel I do it too slow, but then others do it faster.

It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud.

He was listening so I don't remember.

We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.

Write it down in your own handwriting.

Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.

Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here.

It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

Brass, stay down all summer.

Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.

I need one more bass less.

More basses, because you are so far away.

Watch me closely - only one can spoil it.

Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

The next movement is still in the factory.

I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.

It's hot as hell as can be.

I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.

It has no rhythm, but it will because it's so much faster.

During the rests - pray.

That's the way it was every time I studied it.

Something went wrong. It was correct when I studied it.

This is one bar you should take home.

There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted me in the orchestras.

I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And, and...and sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick, so why don't you sit. 'Cause I may never be here again.'

We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.

I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when you're an actor, you're playing the violin. There's a thrill to each of them, but as the conductor, you get the fuller sound.

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.

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

Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

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

There's always that possibility. But, it would take a hell of a lot of work. Because unlike a movie where you just have to do a little ADR and then some mixing, we've actually got to bring the orchestra back because there is music, as you probably noticed, right the way through the film so you have to orchestrate all of that extra time.

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.

The discount offers are for the best available seats, and are often orchestra seats.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them, electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I make them play as I like.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

And your dinner for the orchestra officials." "Haven't you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to make do with what's in the fridge, Clarice. May I call you Clarice?

I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm capable of and what my limitations are. If you're going to build an orchestra, you don't want all tubas - you want a violin and you want a cello and you want a drum set.

I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to go out and do it. Obviously, we don't carry a 70-80-piece orchestra with us when we do shows.

He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable.

I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know

A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.

...Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our delight and satisfaction, and has availed himself with distinction.

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death / of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

It has escaped no one's attention that celebrating Minimalism in the context of a symphony orchestra is admittedly a problematic fit. Most of the best Minimalist music is not scored for conventional orchestra. But the Los Angeles Philharmonic, being an orchestra that is not only a hundred-piece ensemble but also an amalgam of distinct, highly talented performers, found many ways to make a successful survey of this magnitude.

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form, all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music.

The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.