Desmond Tutu
Theologian, Activist
"How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?"
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Orchestra
180 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Teddy Wilson
Jazz Musician
"When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record."
Leonard Bernstein
Composer, Conductor
"The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle."
Leonard Bernstein
Composer, Conductor
"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"The guitar is an orchestra in itself."
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"Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach."
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"The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit."
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"You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life."
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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."
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"Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with."
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"Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas."
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"The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them"
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"One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument."
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"I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony."
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"There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction."
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