Orchestra Quotes - Page 11

• The more the ensemble, the duet or the forty piece orchestra, plays as one person, the more it makes people dance, because you're back in the womb. You feel mom's heartbeat. It makes you move. It reminds you of that warm, groovy space you were in.

  John Densmore

  Mom, Moving, Play

  "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  John Cage

  People, Gang, Destruction

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• A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think that it is an absolutely extraordinary and bold career move that Darwin has made in leaving the Orchestra and embarking on the trajectory of a solo performer/educator. And what a marvelous thing it is for Detroit to be able to welcome home a successful native son - one in whom the community can take pride, and one who will serve as an inspiration to a younger generation of aspiring performers eager to make their mark in the world.

  David Cerone

  Inspiration, Moving, Home

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• For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.

  Marc Almond

  Song, Guitar, Play

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• His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

  Edmund Wilson

  Life, Inspire, Style

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• 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.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Singing, Pieces, Remember

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• I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Thank You, Tunes, Length

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• We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.

  Al Gore

  Gratitude, Optimistic, Years

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• You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology

  Paul McCreesh

  Silly, Play, Symphony

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• The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

  Howard Shore

  Piano, Pieces, Language

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Oscar Levant

  Hate, Realization, Should

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• 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.

  Eric Fellner

  Extra Time, Mixing, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is the orchestra. So you have to launch your emotions very, very far. When you sing pop, you are singing very close - the microphone is very close to your mouth. You can whisper your emotions into the microphone.

  Andrea Bocelli

  People, Singing, Mouths

  "Q&A: On new album, Bocelli celebrates the music of movies". The Associated Press Interview, wtop.com. October 30, 2015.

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• 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.

  Zubin Mehta

  Men, Long

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• We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.

  Brian May

  Thinking, Done, Four

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• It wasn't like we cut songs out; we cut bits of songs, bits of action or bits of whatever. So we would have to go back in get a full orchestra re-orchestrate it, re-score it, re-record it. It's a massive job. But, if there's a demand we can always discuss it.

  Eric Fellner

  Song, Jobs, Cutting

  Source: collider.com

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• Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The image has to be specific. You can't just say to yourself, 'I'll do my best.' You have to have a mental blueprint of that role in your mind.

  Linda Hamilton

  Motivational, Dance, Real

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• Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable from it in the mind of its creator and native to it from the hour of its birth.

  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  Color, Soul, Mind

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• Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.

  Allan Kozinn

  Museums, Hands, Dropping

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• We still listen to the original lush arrangements with the orchestras.

  Jane Lynch

  Stills, Originals, Arrangements

  Source: collider.com

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• I had been composing just for myself, and people would say I played so orchestrally, and wondered if I thought about having someone write a piece for me for an orchestra. And I thought, I don't want someone else to write that. You know I finally had made an overhead chart of my drums and what pitches the cymbals and toms were tuned to, and what have you. And I started to compose just with what I had for my solo drumming.

  Terry Bozzio

  Writing, People, Pieces

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing in Heaven. We're going to have the greatest choirs, the greatest bands and symphony orchestras, the greatest music that the world has ever known. The world has never even heard music yet compared to what we're going to have there! If humans can make the beautiful music they have learned to make with these hand-made instruments, think what God can do supernaturally!

  David Berg

  Beautiful, Angel, Thinking

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• I never thought the orchestra should be big.

  Alexandre Desplat

  Should, Bigs

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• It's hot as hell as can be.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Hot, Hell

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• Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third. The trumpet solo will be played by our solo trumpet player. It's named 'Blumine,' which has something to do with flowers.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Flower, Mean

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