Orchestra Quotes (page 3)

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• people
• shopping
• time

And your dinner for the orchestra officials."Haven't you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to make do with what's in the fridge, Clarice. May I call you Clarice? Thomas Harris

• world
• blue
• tea

For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes. All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment o the 'Beale Street Blues' while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shiny dust. At the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted... F. Scott Fitzgerald

• kindness
• trick
• russians

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. Gerry Mulligan

• saxophone
• otherness
• instrumentation

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra. Gerry Mulligan

• french
• great
• greatness

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra. Gerry Mulligan

• music
• writing
• week

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

• music
• real
• ambition

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

• book
• lion
• cages

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion? Dimitri Mitropoulos

• adventure
• analog
• conductors

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. Nicholas Meyer

• influence
• thank you
• thanks

I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes. Jonny Greenwood

• fronts
• pardoned
• front

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra. John Goodman

• deep
• play
• wellness

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well. Evelyn Glennie

• end
• play
• different

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending. Robert Fripp

• giving
• gives
• must

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience. George Szell

• over
• start
• go

Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with. Keith Emerson