#orchestra

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 I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30. ↗

— Les Baxter

#i #musicians #orchestra #want

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#composers #instruments #love #musical #orchestras

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

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#dear #desperate #fiddling #his #life

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra. ↗

— John Goodman

#me #orchestra #pardon

I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#back #banjo #beatles #been #better

I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#germany #i #munich #orchestras #other