Alexander McCall Smith
Related We are a fully professional orchestra with fully paid musicians, but we are still perceived as a sma... DOUG BARRY CHRISTIAN DIOR ANNE RICE On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to cond... EBERHARD WEBER It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. DAVE BRUBECK LEONARD BERNSTEIN I really enjoy the youth orchestra because we get to play concert repertoire music with strings and ... ZACHARY WELLS There are a few great orchestras in the world, thank goodness. Although some people do put them in r... SIMON RATTLE GRACE WILLOWS It's a pretty common thing with an orchestra. When I was living in the Village and going to see the ... JACK MANNO MAX LUCADO The music lovers of London and the country deserve to have something where orchestras can flourish. ... SIMON RATTLE LEONARD BERNSTEIN The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there... FRANK GEHRY ELVIS COSTELLO Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music. DAVID NEWMAN It's like the whole world is this orchestra and I'm the conductor, EVAN RACHEL WOOD Thirty is a full orchestra, but we want to have a big orchestra. REMICA GRAY NAVJOT SINGH SIDHU ABHIJIT NASKAR STEPHEN CHBOSKY JIMI HENDRIX We're the rare animal in the symphony orchestra world; while most orchestras belong to a city, we be... ALICE GOLEMBO Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra. GERRY MULLIGAN Steven is such an asset to this orchestra. Because he and I view so many aspects of music-making the... GEORGE HANSON Jess paints a pretty picture of an orchestra, but if we are one, then I'm the first chair violinist.... ASHLEY POSTON I've had students who have not been really excited about the orchestra program that have decided the... SHAUNA SMITH We want to make the orchestra more accessible to people who have never been to see a live concert to... CHRIS DEACON I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the c... LEON THEREMIN We wanted to help the school districts enrich their curriculum. We added the guitar orchestra last S... BETH HANSEN It's very much like a string orchestra, except that you play with flutes. NANCY CLEW There's a great difference between having 20 in an orchestra and having 70 in an orchestra. Seventy ... ANNE DUDLEY The more tools we have directors and cinematographers will be able to express more and create differ... EMMANUEL LUBEZKI You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character. KURT MASUR To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra. CECIL TAYLOR ITZHAK PERLMAN For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had thre... GUSTAVO DUDAMEL I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and every... KACY HILL Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job. JOHN WILLIAMS VANESSA CARLTON The quality of the orchestra is truly outstanding. I do think they have an extraordinary kind of col... ANDREW DAVIS The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that ... AL JARREAU Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra. JOHN GOODMAN I played cello in my high school orchestra. EBERHARD WEBER SIR THOMAS BEECHAM PATTI SMITH I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor. KURT MASUR WES CRAVEN At our first meeting I remember when someone said, 'It would be great if the Lahti Orchestra would d... OSMO VANSKA ABHIJIT NASKAR JOSHUA BELL RIVERS CUOMO Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world ... ARTUR RODZINSKI In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments. ARTUR RODZINSKI With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community. GUSTAVO DUDAMEL BARBARA WALTERS I loved the orchestra from the beginning, ... In addition to allowing me to play, it soon evolved in... JOHN CLARKE Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit. ERIC SAN I didn't play it with the Florida Orchestra but with its predecessor, the Florida Gulf Coast Symphon... GARRICK OHLSSON When we're in a state of health, the vibrations in our body sound like an orchestra playing a sympho... CHRISTINE O'GRADY Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famou... LARRY HAGMAN JAMES CROOK MAX LUCADO DALE CARNEGIE It will be a tour de force not only for her. It will give the entire orchestra a workout. We have th... DONNA GOGGIN If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchest... ROBERT FRIPP What we don't want is to bring in somebody who would simply use the university as a stepping stone t... GLENN CHANDLER incredibly good training for the orchestra. HUW EDWARDS I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially... GUSTAVO DUDAMEL NADIA BOULANGER JAMES CROOK When you have an orchestra, you don't want to just jump ship and leave. This has been a wonderful ve... PAUL NADLER ZUBIN MEHTA To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing. CARMINE COPPOLA [And when Levine explains his approach, it is not just a theory. He has been called one of the world... JAMES LEVINE TIM BURTON I remember when we did the Tchaikovsky (concerto), he just flew. We weren't used to that. But when w... MARK THIELEN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem. ELLIOTT CARTER The way it's best described is DHS is the conductor of an orchestra. All of these partners ... are t... GEORGE FORESMAN DANNY MEYER It's a season of great variety with something for everyone. It's been great to see the palpable exci... JEFFREY KAHANE I'm British, and I like to do some British music, ... That's something I can bring to the orchestra,... HUW EDWARDS ABHIJIT NASKAR His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship... EDMUND WILSON Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the a... GEORGE SZELL Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the ... GEORGE SZELL I remember seeing Tony Bennett on television. He was the only guy in the orchestra who was wearing a... KURT ELLING But it is also so exciting, because it allows us to really address the fundamental artistic directio... JOHN DRISCOLL Heaven is all around us. All we need is perception; to extol the melodies of Nature's orchestra. ANURAG SHOURIE God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orche... JULIE HARRIS Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... Carnegie Hall is at the center of the music world, and when our orchestra appears there, people will... HANS GRAF It has not only the muscle but the size, the orchestra, the cast. BRADLEY GREENWALD The discount offers are for the best available seats, and are often orchestra seats. GRETCHEN SHUGART The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing futur... LEONARD SLATKIN ELISHA CUTHBERT ANTHONY KIEDIS The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed. CHICK COREA For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I ... MARC ALMOND
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That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenti... 
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the compose... 
You play those dimples like an exquisite orchestra, Mr. Boomer. 
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And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write ... 
You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. 
Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve t... 
So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... 
Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I w... 
I say to string players in small chamber orchestras, 'it's always easy to become a passenger... 
Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then... 
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't ... 
I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William ... 
I had a musician friend once tell me that it's not in the orchestra that you get the true test o... 
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I think if I wasn't a musician, I would be a high-school band director or orchestra director. I ... 
To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done a... 
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. 
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I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As fo... 
The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. 
The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra. 
I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who ... 
In the restaurant business, as opposed to the theater, center orchestra is an 8 P. M. reservation. O... 
Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receiv... 
Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little... 
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. 
Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have t... 
Mma Ramotswe sighed. 'We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.'
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. 
I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons. 