Orchestral Quotes

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

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

When there are sequences when the eye, and not the ear, is the primary object, then the composer has his fling in the writing of incidental background music. In this branch of musical writing there have been some of the finest examples of orchestral music which our age has produced. - Erich Wolfgang Korngold

When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings. - Kiri Te Kanawa

When I was a kid, I won a contest and played a Mozart concerto with the Chicago Symphony, and I've written some movie scores, and I've been listening to orchestral music for years. - Herbie Hancock

We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music. - Mick Ralphs

We have some fantastic voices in this production, the orchestral and vocal writing is brilliant and the chorus is unbelievable. - Tom Diamond

We have a couple arrangements of piano pieces, a xylophone rag or two, an arrangement of an orchestral piece, an arrangement of a piece from an opera composer, and a quartet for mallet percussion and some other percussion. - David Ortiz

We are very excited about this camp because there is nothing in the area for youth to stay to have orchestral, chamber and solo experiences. Three camp scholarships will be available. - Annette Condeluci

This is more orchestral, while the freshman seminar was more like a lab band. - Perry Cook