Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miriam Makeba

I was so scared. Such a big orchestra

Artur Rodzinski

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

Kathleen Battle

I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.

Mark Thielen

I remember when we did the Tchaikovsky (concerto), he just flew. We weren't used to that. But when we do things like that, it makes the orchestra grow.

David Ogden Stiers

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

David Ogden Stiers

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Pat Miller

It is extraordinary - the orchestra tells you so much about the stage and what's going on,

Christopher Young

Usually when I am approached to do a score for a horror movie, it's to attempt a repeat performance of what I did way back on 'Hellraiser' or 'Jennifer 8' - one of those really orchestral scores.

Marco Beltrami

I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.

Tim Ries

With the Stones, it's not like you're a side saxophone player,

Gerry Mulligan

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

Matt Dillon

I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.

Kesha

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

Tom Verlaine

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

Julian Schnabel

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

Steve Lacy

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

Steve Lacy

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

Steve Lacy

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Alexander Pope

When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

Anais Nin

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

Cassandra Clare

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

Herbert Marcuse

This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?

R. Buckminster Fuller

I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.