Quotes About Orchestra

Propelled by violas and stinging electric guitar, presto followed andante, and so to finale.

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story.

Twice the clouds came down, to swathe Bel Air in their delicate folds of moisture for twenty-four hours. On the second occasion, the five of us walked in cloud halfway to the Col de Fer. By road, of course. The exercise acted like a cure. I never remember feeling fitter in all my life. And the music of the orchestra of waters we could not see was unforgettable.

Se ognuno di noi imparasse dalle lezioni della vita il cuore morbido del proprio credo. Se ognuno di noi diventasse un virtuoso dell'amore all'interno della sua religione. E poi, avendo imparato bene la sua religione, se andasse oltre a imparare a suonare come i membri di un'orchestra, in armonia con altre religioni. (p 172)

I would love to bring the children from my foundation Sinfonia por el Peru to play with some of the best musicians in the world.

In 'Secret Life of Pets,' it's a huge orchestra - really, really big.

I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.

I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists, but I don't have a pianist or a drummer.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you're limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.

Many people who don't like Rachmaninov's style consider the 'Rhapsody' his masterpiece. It's written fantastically well for orchestra and piano. He combines a lot of effervescence with a deep, Romantic spirit.

Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.

It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they sound really dated. But when an orchestra plays a piece from that period, and it's going to sound different every time, it feels more modern to me.

My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.