#orchestra

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#also #believe #feel #greatest #happy

While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#european #golden #kinds #look #make

It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group. ↗

— Ken Hensley

#exciting #frustrating #group #orchestral #work

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head. ↗

— John Fahey

#big #classical #classical music #compose #guitar

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. ↗

— Mae West

#audience #big #black #gleam #glitter

As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation. ↗

— James Levine

#bringing #crises #generation #gripped #kinds

There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#although #balance #better #cases #combination

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#french #horns #how #orchestra #soccer

I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#creating #else #game #game music #i

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#i #instead #introduced #makers #music