Orchestra Quotes

You see such progress with them. They start without even knowing the name of an instrument and in a year or two they're sitting in an orchestra. Elementary music is the most fun and most rewarding. - Larry Newman

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. - Elvis Costello

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you. - David Ogden Stiers

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character. - Kurt Masur

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall. - Itzhak Perlman

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. - Navjot Singh Sidhu

You can sing Gershwin for an entire evening and have an orchestra play Gershwin for an entire evening and never be bored because there are so many different approaches to things. - Rosemary Clooney

Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot. - Trevor Rabin