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orchestra Quotes and Quotations
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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 | top
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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 | top
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The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world. Jane Byrne | top
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section. Barbara Cook | top
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It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | top
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I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference. Danny Elfman | top
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The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. Jacques Ellul | top
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Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market. Skitch Henderson | top
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I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar. Trevor Horn | top
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The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra. Roland Joffe | top
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways. Lara St. John | top
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In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms. James Weldon Johnson | top
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It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it. James Levine | top
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There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do. James Levine | top
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The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. Nicholas Meyer | top
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek. Mandy Moore | top
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He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable. Robert Ripley | top
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Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all. Artur Rodzinski | top
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Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. Esa-Pekka Salonen | top
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Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit. Eric San | top
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You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. Navjot Singh Sidhu | top
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I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me. David Ogden Stiers | top
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To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra. Cecil Taylor | top
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When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers. Bobby Vinton | top
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. Edmund Wilson | top