#orchestra

I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#could #day #go #good #half

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

#conductors #deeper #different #hear #itself

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#directly #distinct #eye #flow #forms

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra. ↗

— James Laughlin

#book #everything #i #i do #orchestra

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#conducting #could #first #go #got

My whole career I have worked with non-Western musicians and different orchestras and ensembles and choirs. ↗

— Mychael Danna

#choirs #different #i #musicians #orchestras

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion? ↗

— Dimitri Mitropoulos

#cage #conducting #does #enter #how

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek. ↗

— Mandy Moore

#broadway #days #geek #get #i

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

— Gerry Mulligan

#baritone #cannot #functions #orchestral #serve

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

— Gerry Mulligan

#attracted #band #been #i #jazz