Desmond Tutu Quotes

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.

It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film.

I am always happiest in an ensemble.

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.

If you can sing together, you can live together.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

The element of harmony is super important.

When you listen to a symphony orchestra, and the basses don't - there's no bass part, there's not that much depth. That's why I'm attracted to the instrument, the bass. It brings depth. It's like playing in a rainforest.

Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

Part of an ensemble show is realizing it's a collaboration. It's like a symphony. Everybody takes their turn, but it's really the collective group that matters.

For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together.

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.

If the team is scoring, and I'm on the court, that's as good as me scoring.