Musical Orchestra Quotes

#1. We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra.

Kane Freeman

#2. I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.

Gunther Schuller

#3. Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. All things that have been in this world, all things that are or will be in it, have to vanish: we have our sad farewell to give them.

Thomas Carlyle

#5. A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

Marya Mannes

#6. Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

Elbert Hubbard

#7. We are made of the same stardust of which all things are made, and when we are immersed in suffering or when we are experiencing intense joy we are being nothing other than what we can't help but be: a part of our world.

Carlo Rovelli

#8. 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

#9. One reason that we find the emergence of life surprising is that we don't really see much of it. . . We are like Horton the elephant, too large to hear the Whos.

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#10. When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.

Emilia Fox

#11. There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz band, or a choir, and use every element that the musical tool box can offer. The world of music I love so much, and I can change the costume depending on the part, and I'm actually in the film.

Alexandre Desplat

#12. He was obsessed not only with the acquisition of knowledge, but with its retention.

George R R Martin

#13. The Woodshed Orchestra trade in exuberance and might, a glistening thunderslap on the hind of musical atrophy. These songs leap from disc to lap, a many-legged beast trundling with joy and vision.

Dave Bidini

#14. The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

L. Ron Hubbard

#15. 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?

Dimitris Mitropoulos

#16. Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

Marian Wright Edelman

#17. Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

Eric San

#18. Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.

Ellen J. Barrier

#19. I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.

John Carney

#20. I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.

Eugene Ormandy

#21. The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

Chick Corea

#22. Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.

Orhan Pamuk

#23. I do like to just have football on, so I will TiVo, like, three or four games for the weekend, and I'll just turn it on when there's no live football on, just to have the background noise.

Christopher Gorham

#24. Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

Michael Bloomberg

#25. [As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

Charles Hazlewood

#26. I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a piano teacher and a painter, so it was kind of a creative environment, and it was kind of in my DNA.

Trevor Rabin

#27. Stop nourishing other people's ideas and beliefs in your life. Take up your own idea and endeavor to accomplish it.

Abhijit Naskar

#28. the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by

Tom Waits