Eugene Ormandy Quotes

I am so excited to perform; I am so ready to perform; I love live performances! I think it's something so different from a track; live is just so unique and cool because the energy is just so different. I cannot wait to have live performances.

I've always been accused of moving around too much when I play concertos. Sometimes, conductors ask me which of us is leading.

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That's why we're such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, 'Are people interested?' But I think our band has something and they know we don't just put albums out. We do think about it.

I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

I've had to ban my mum from coming to see me play. She gets so nervous before any show. I've always got a few nerves but she's so much worse than me. You'd think she'd be able to handle that kind of situation. After all, she is a concert pianist.

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

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

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.

What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!

We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you.

When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.

There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.

I had a dream I was onstage naked and I forgot how to play the songs.

No, I'm never confident with what I do, particularly playing and singing!

There was one incident where we couldn't hear ourselves, so we were singing in an entirely different key than the instruments. It gets so loud at a Jonas Brothers concert!