#orchestra

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#away #close #come #doors #dying

I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar. ↗

— Trevor Horn

#business #first #go #grammar #him

Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#album #any #arrangements #arranger #band

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#first #i #line #orchestra #people

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra ↗

— André Breton

#orchestra #surrealism #surreal

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

When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#more #never #orchestra #per #recording

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#films #freedom #get #i #i think

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#communicate #devastated #done #give #i

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#orchestration #platitudes