Orchestra Quotes - Page 19

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

Eugene Ormandy

Funny, Holding On

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The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

Max Roach

Men, Drummer, Percussion

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

Placido Domingo

Minutes, Session

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In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

David Amram

Thinking, Feelings, Conducting

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Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

Kurt Masur

Player, Speaks Out, People

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My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

Harry Mathews

Play, Ideas, Paris

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I played cello in my high school orchestra.

Eberhard Weber

School, High School

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Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

Elliott Carter

Writing, Challenges, Problem

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I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

Itzhak Perlman

Real, Members, Feels

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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.

James Laughlin

Book, Two, Three

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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

Eberhard Weber

Hands, People, Giving

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In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

Fernand Point

Food, Cooking, Kitchen

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Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with nature. Ashes and Snow is a 21st-century bestiary filled with species from around the world. Nature’s orchestra includes not just Homo sapiens but elephants, whales, manatees, eagles, cheetahs, orangutans, and many others.

Gregory Colbert

Elephants, Eagles, Whales

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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.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Writing, Fog, London

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