Quotes About Performance

I feel choir just has a great sense of power when used with an orchestra, or even by itself.

I feel I'm most successful when I'm playing a concert, and it doesn't necessarily seem like I'm playing a saxophone but am coming off more like an orchestra or something like that.

When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.

For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.

On stage, I'm always nervous, but there is so much adrenalin, too. It's strange because I have to turn my back on the audience, and my audience is the orchestra. I communicate my energy to them, and they communicate it to the audience behind me!

Most of the time, I'll be conducting the orchestra, but there will be some pieces that I'll be playing an instrument as well, just because I love playing. There's pieces where I want to grab an instrument and play with the rest of the group, like 'The Light of the Seven,' for example; I would love to play the piano for that.

It was a huge honour to play at the Palladium with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

If the orchestra's not enjoying itself, the concerto will not succeed, with the players confined to using half an inch of bow.

When I was going to high school, in the high school band we would play these kind of hour-long concerts for our parents. All the parents would come to the gymnasium, and the band would play an hour-long kind of orchestra piece. 'Synchestra' is supposed to be similar, like a high school band orchestra piece.

Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody.

I don't play beats. I hate playing beats. I'm an orchestration drummer. I'm a musical drummer.

I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.

Coaching a football player is the same as directing an actor. The guy has to follow orders and be able to perform skillfully.

I used to think I was ordinary and just like everybody else, and I am, but there is something about being in a band. It's not for everyone.

If you really see how many live shows are going on... you can start to do things that are out of the ordinary.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

You come across quite ordinary, nondescript people in daily life, and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage, too.

My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.

You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.

I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.

I don't like playing to guitar players, actually. I'd rather just play to ordinary people.

When the camera is on, I am an actor; otherwise, I am an ordinary person.

We've got an electric organ, a sax, drums, guitar and bass guitar. We sound less like the Beatles than most of the groups.

A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.