Orchestras Quotes

(On singing with string-based orchestras to create what became known as "the Nashville sound") I got to thinking, if I just took the same kind of songs I`d been singing and added violins to them, I`d have a new sound.....They (the country music establishment) cussed me, but the disc jockeys grabbed it.....The artists began to say, "Aww, he`s left us". Then, within a year, they were doing it!

I think that there`s a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don`t have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

It`s not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what`s going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they`re thrown away.

I have hundreds of hours of this music on tape performed by orchestras at the college that, as I said, have never seen the light of any other day.

(In the 1950s, he began conducting symphony orchestras across the country, in Canada and in Europe. He first conducted) pops ... one of the great train wrecks of my life.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.