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Show me an orchestra that likes its conductor and I`ll show you a lousy conductor.
Goddard Lieberson
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I aspire to be a director...I think it stems from wanting to be a conductor, another desire of mine from my childhood, though I was not interested in music, not at all. I just wanted to control that orchestra.
Alexander Siddig
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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
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I think this one has more electronics in it than anything else.. I didn`t want to do straight orchestra because Batman, he`s not a straight character. I mean where do you get those wonderful toys from and the technology? So I thought I could embrace a bit...
Hans Zimmer
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It has been said that every man must properly pay the fiddler. Alas, in my case, it happened that an entire symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.
John Barrymore
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I am putting together some ideas for two or three more things I want to do. Maybe a CD of just my kind of standards, which would be Supertramp and Steely Dan covers with an orchestra. I`m deep into old Genesis - I`m sorry, but these are songs that mean so...
Robert Downey Jr.
Keywords: am :: an :: and :: are :: be :: but :: cd :: covers :: dan :: deep :: do :: for :: genesis :: ideas :: into :: just :: kind :: maybe :: mean :: more :: my :: of :: old :: or :: orchestra :: putting :: some :: somethin :: songs :: sorry :: standards :: steely :: supertramp :: that :: these :: things :: three :: to :: together :: two :: want :: which :: with :: wouldSource: imdb.com
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You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That`s why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don`t feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.
Itzhak Perlman
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Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it`s a very challenging problem.
Elliott Carter
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When you`re that young and you play with an orchestra -- I debuted with the New York Philharmonic -- they call you a prodigy and that name sticks with you even when you`re 15 or 16. What I liked even then, though, was that the conductors treated me like a...
Sarah Chang
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When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don`t feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that`s all done, trust comes in.
Itzhak Perlman
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When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
Placido Domingo
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We`re not saying we`re the pros from Dover, ... This is just something that`s not being done here and it`s very important. A modern and sophisticated city needs this kind of theatre in the same way that it needs a symphony orchestra or an art gallery -- t...
John Wright
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We really make an effort to sound exactly like the originals. The orchestra score is exact, right down to every note and instrument that was on the original recording. ... On `A Day in the Life,` can you imagine that big orchestra crescendo happening live...
Arsenal Wenger
Keywords: an :: and :: big :: can :: crescendo :: day :: down :: effort :: every :: exact :: exactly :: happening :: imagine :: in :: instrument :: is :: life :: like :: live :: make :: note :: on :: orchestra :: original :: originals :: really :: recording :: right :: score :: sound :: that :: the :: to :: was :: we :: youSource: thinkexist.com
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We really make an effort to sound exactly like the originals. The orchestra score is exact, right down to every note and instrument that was on the original recording. ... On `A Day in the Life,` can you imagine that big orchestra crescendo happening live...
Arsenal Wenger
Keywords: an :: and :: big :: can :: crescendo :: day :: down :: effort :: every :: exact :: exactly :: happening :: imagine :: in :: instrument :: is :: life :: like :: live :: make :: note :: on :: orchestra :: original :: originals :: really :: recording :: right :: score :: sound :: that :: the :: to :: was :: we :: youSource: thinkexist.com
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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
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To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
Cecil Taylor
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This is an important milestone both for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the American orchestra industry. For the first time, an American orchestra is making available its archives on iTunes and other commercial download sites, finally realizing the p...
Robert Levine
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This is an important milestone both for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the American orchestra industry. For the first time, an American orchestra is making available its archives on iTunes and other commercial download sites, finally realizing the p...
Robert Levine
Keywords: american :: an :: and :: archives :: available :: both :: commercial :: download :: finally :: first :: for :: important :: industry :: is :: its :: itunes :: making :: milestone :: milwaukee :: on :: orchestra :: other :: prom :: realizing :: sites :: symphony :: the :: this :: timeSource: thinkexist.com
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This is an important milestone both for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the American orchestra industry. For the first time, an American orchestra is making available its archives on iTunes and other commercial download sites, finally realizing the p...
Robert Levine
Keywords: american :: an :: and :: archives :: available :: both :: commercial :: download :: finally :: first :: for :: important :: industry :: is :: its :: itunes :: making :: milestone :: milwaukee :: on :: orchestra :: other :: prom :: realizing :: sites :: symphony :: the :: this :: timeSource: thinkexist.com
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There`s too much of an opportunity for indoctrination here. What a young person could gain from working as a team and something like that would be better learned on an athletic team or playing in an orchestra or a band.
Doug Nelson
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There`s sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.
Jello Biafra
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There was a band called the National Youth of Orchestra who did a version of Queen`s `We Will Rock You,` ... They were good. It was different.
Barbara Castle
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There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.
James Levine
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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...
John Philip Sousa
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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn`t give a damn what goes on in between.
Andrew Boston
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The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.
Lisa Loeb
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The Royal Festival Hall, I don`t know whether it was 80 or 70, gave a whole festival of my music there with orchestra and everything. String quartets.
Elliott Carter
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The orchestra matured and so many great things happened at a speed that outpaced the internal infrastructure in the organization. They`re having some growing pains, and it`s unfortunate when people get caught up in it.
Barbara Sher
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The hard thing about TV is that you`ve go to write really fast and you have to make a small orchestra sound big. The great thing about TV is that the restrictions separate the boys from the men.
Don Davis
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The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
Brian May
