Musical Ensembles Quotes

Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.

When you want to form a band, there's always an overwhelming lack of drummers.

There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.

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.

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

It was only in the second year of my Ph.D. that I started acting. I wasn't in school plays or anything; I was in bands, but I wasn't cool. There's no such thing as a cool physics person, is there?

I'm a big fan of power trios where there's only three instruments.

Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.

The music lovers of London and the country deserve to have something where orchestras can flourish. You have no idea how wonderful an orchestra like the London Symphony Orchestra can sound in a great concert hall.