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• Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don’t realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

  Alan J. Pakula

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• There’s not an orchestra in the world that doesn’t have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.

  Leonard Slatkin

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• The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn’t just playing, it’s about developing future audiences and performers.

  Leonard Slatkin

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• An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.

  Leonard Slatkin

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• I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock ’em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.

  Valerie Simpson

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  A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

  Max Lucado

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• Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.

  Gerry Mulligan

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• Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn’t continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.

  Eberhard Weber

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• How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

  Desmond Tutu

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• His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

  Edmund Wilson

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

  Artur Rodzinski

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• Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it’s a very challenging problem.

  Elliott Cook Carter Jr

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• I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can’t hear the violins well.

  Evelyn Glennie

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• It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is – like Verdi said – working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra’s collective qualities emerge.

  James Levine

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• I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

  Burt Bacharach

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• I think this orchestra’s strengths involve drama and voice.

  James Levine

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• There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

  James Levine

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• I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

  James Levine

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• It’s just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

  James Levine

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• I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I’ve just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music.

  Nobuo Uematsu

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