Quotes by Orchestra 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 orchestrafogwriting The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra. Max Roach orchestradrummermen The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument. McCoy Tyner orchestrainstrumentspiano In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely. Max Lucado orchestraplaysong There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you. Michael Nyman orchestrawantwriting In order to lead the orchestra, you must first turn your back to the crowd. Mike Mentzer orchestracrowdsorder What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies. Milton Berle orchestramilesmind We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra. Mitch Albom orchestrasoundworld You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. Navjot Singh Sidhu orchestrasymphonyplay The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire. Oliver Sacks orchestracreatingbrain The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients, such as patients with Tourette's syndrome. Music helps them bring their impulses and tics under control. There is even a whole percussion orchestra made up exclusively of Tourette's patients. Oliver Sacks orchestraimportantpeople I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony. Olivia Newton-John orchestraexcitedsymphony A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him. Oscar Levant orchestrahaterealization Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra. Paul Bocuse life-is-too-shortorchestrameals In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it Paul Fournel double-bassorchestraforget I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces. Paul Lansky orchestrapieceswriting When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session. Placido Domingo sessionorchestraminutes When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do. Placido Domingo orchestrafive Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance. Rachel Kushner romantic-musicorchestrapiano I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to go out and do it. Obviously, we don't carry a 70-80-piece orchestra with us when we do shows. Ricky Skaggs orchestrasingingpieces«12345678910»
