Symphonic Sound Quotes

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.

The soundtrack for 'Mr. Fraud' is classical with a decent level of fusion.

Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.'

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

To me, that's when music was music. Every studio had a full symphonic orchestra and a whole bunch of singers they used on every picture. Every radio show had singers on it, and NBC and CBS had their own staff orchestras. Music was everything. And it was good music; it wasn't based on three chords.

We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.