Quotes About Funny Orchestra

#1. After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.

Eugene Ormandy

#2. This is one bar you should take home.

Eugene Ormandy

#3. Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?

Eugene Ormandy

#4. Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.

Eugene Ormandy

#5. Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

Eugene Ormandy

#6. Something went wrong. It was correct when I studied it.

Eugene Ormandy

#7. Start three bars before something.

Eugene Ormandy

#8. I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

Eugene Ormandy

#9. I know this music from memory, not from the music.

Eugene Ormandy

#10. It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.

Eugene Ormandy

#11. That's the way it was every time I studied it.

Eugene Ormandy

#12. Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.

Eugene Ormandy

#13. Brass, stay down all summer.

Eugene Ormandy

#14. Who is sitting in that empty chair?

Eugene Ormandy

#15. Someone came too sooner.

Eugene Ormandy

#16. It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.

Eugene Ormandy

#17. He was listening so I don't remember.

Eugene Ormandy

#18. I always feel I do it too slow, but then others do it faster.

Eugene Ormandy

#19. We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.

Eugene Ormandy

#20. Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here.

Eugene Ormandy

#21. Watch me closely - only one can spoil it.

Eugene Ormandy

#22. 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

#23. I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

Eugene Ormandy

#24. I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.

Eugene Ormandy

#25. Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

Eugene Ormandy

#26. It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they sound really dated. But when an orchestra plays a piece from that period, and it's going to sound different every time, it feels more modern to me.

Jonny Greenwood

#27. I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud.

Eugene Ormandy

#28. Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

Eugene Ormandy

#29. More basses, because you are so far away.

Eugene Ormandy

#30. Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.

Eugene Ormandy

#31. Did you play? It sounded very good.

Eugene Ormandy

#32. Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.

Eugene Ormandy

#33. The next movement is still in the factory.

Eugene Ormandy

#34. Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

Eugene Ormandy

#35. Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.

Eugene Ormandy

#36. Start at B. Yes. No. Yes. No.

Eugene Ormandy

#37. I conduct faster so you can see my beat.

Eugene Ormandy

#38. I need one more bass less.

Eugene Ormandy

#39. Write it down in your own handwriting.

Eugene Ormandy

#40. It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

Geraldine Ferraro

#41. Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult.

Eugene Ormandy

#42. To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.

Jimmy Durante

#43. It has no rhythm, but it will because it's so much faster.

Eugene Ormandy