196 Orchestra Quotes for You to Enjoy

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. Andres Segovia

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

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You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra. Andris Nelsons

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

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I worked with Jack Nitzsche for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' and we'd booked a symphony orchestra. He dismissed them and came with a little man who poured water into glasses of different sizes to make a glass harmonica. And most of the music for the film was that - with some Indian flutes and some drums. Milos Forman

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When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played. Andre Previn

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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

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I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers. Andris Nelsons

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You could almost write an opera about the selection of music directors for orchestras. The intrigues are really interesting, and then, at the end, the results are completely unexpected. Andris Nelsons

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I think touring is an important part of the life of an orchestra. Not only sharing with other audiences, but bringing that sense of family that you get back home. The sense of growing deeper into the music, of making it all sound like chamber music - that comes from being together on tour. Andris Nelsons

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Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around. Anthony Daniels

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I mainly listen to the music that's playing during movies. It can be the theme to 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' 'The Equalizer,' stuff like that. I like the blend of orchestra with modern instrumentation. It's something that I've wanted to do. Axl Rose

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My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time. Bjork

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If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra. Brian Stokes Mitchell

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I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don't know that I'll be touring six months out of the year in a rock band when I'm 60. Bryce Dessner

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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference. C. V. Raman

At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage. Carlo Collodi

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To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing. Carmine Coppola

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