Orchestra Quotes

• No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

  Halford Luccock

  Life, Teamwork, Science

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• With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Community, Citizens, Building

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• You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Play, Symphony, Symphony Orchestras

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

  Max Lucado

  Motivational, Strength, Leadership

  Max Lucado (2010). “Chronicles of the Cross Collection”, p.205, Harper Collins

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

  Milton Berle

  Mind, Miles, Miles Away

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• The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

  Benjamin Zander

  Inspirational, Music, Motivation

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• There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

  Thomas Beecham

  Funny, Music, Two

  In Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978) p. 27

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• We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.

  J. Boone

  Spiritual, Essentials, Members

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• The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Roles, Century, Audience

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• If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Leadership, Sports, Practice

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• For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

  Dale Carnegie

  Kindness, Thoughtful, Play

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

  Herbert von Karajan

  Art, Play, Knowing

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• It can and will be a more powerful sound but the orchestra has far more potential for expressive power. When I hear a great rock band it can make me feel alive, but when I hear a great orchestra it can make me feel human.

  Glenn Branca

  Powerful, Rocks, Band

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• 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.

  Max Lucado

  Song, Play, Instruments

  Max Lucado (2008). “The Applause of Heaven”, p.154, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor and everybody in the orchestra follows you. Then, a few bars later, the main voice goes to another instrument, another group, and then you have to go back into the collective [sound]. The art of playing in an orchestra is being able to express yourself to the maximum but always in relation to something else that is going on.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Art, School, Play

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• 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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Play, Littles, Environment

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Perfect, Together

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• You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

  Howard Shore

  Sound, World, Film

  "Score one for originality" by Chuck Crisafulli, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2006.

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• In order to lead the orchestra, you must first turn your back to the crowd.

  Mike Mentzer

  Order, Crowds, Firsts

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• Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen.

  Desmond Tutu

  Play, Symphony, Community

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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

  Soccer, Teamwork, Goalkeepers

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.50, Random House

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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

  Sound, Want, Classical Music

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• We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You are not required to play a solo, but you are required to know what instrument you hold and play it as well as you can. You are required to find your place in the score. What we love we must protect. That’s what love means. From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Love, Time, Responsibility

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• 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.

  Michael Jackson

  Believe, Sound, World

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Aug 08, 2013

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• Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

  Mae West

  Love, Women, Space

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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