You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.
With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
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.
We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
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.
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.
The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.
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.
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the 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.
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.
In order to lead the orchestra, you must first turn your back to the crowd.
How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
I sometimes like to think of God as a great symphony and the various spiritual paths as instruments in an orchestra. The gift that you have is like music waiting to be played. You need only to find the instrument that will best bring it out. You alone can never play all the instruments, and your music might not find voice in all the instruments. All you can do is find the instrument that suits you best, play it as well as you can, and add your music to the great symphony of divine creation.
Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face.
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
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