Orchestra Quotes - Page 4

• Brass, stay down all summer.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Summer, Brass

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• [As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those symphony orchestras. If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club. For me music was not about that. It is about freedom and expression and individuality and impulsiveness and spontaneity. It wasn't so Apollonian; it was more Dionysian.

  Bjork

  School, Kids, Expression

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.stereogum.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

  Gustav Mahler

  Play, Numbers, Tone

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• I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Trying, Helping

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• Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Trying, Conducting

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• The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful enough.

  George Carlin

  Beautiful, Night, Symphony

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Jobs, Sex

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Play, Guy

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• Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, New York, Congratulations

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• Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Knows

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• I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Heart, Years

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• This is one bar you should take home.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Home, Bars

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• The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Would Be, Notes

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• Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Tempo

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• We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Airplane, Balance

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• Someone came too sooner.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny

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• Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Thinking

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• More basses, because you are so far away.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Bass, Far Away

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• Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Sick, Three

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• I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Mean, Way

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• It has no rhythm, but it will because it's so much faster.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Faster, Rhythm

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• Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

  Kid Koala

  Musical, Pits, Puppets

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• We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Tomorrow, Knows

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• That's the way it was every time I studied it.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Way

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• That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Opposites, Yesterday

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