Orchestral Quotes

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing. - Gerry Mulligan

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility. - Bill Dixon

I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka. - Serj Tankian

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. - Gerry Mulligan

It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group. - Ken Hensley

In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms. - James Weldon Johnson

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time. - Peter Maxwell Davies

I went to one of the orchestral recordings, and it was so amazing, because they look at the screen, they hear our voice, and they play along with it. - Sofie Zamchick

I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference. - Danny Elfman