I always feel I do it too slow, but then others do it faster.
The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.
I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy.
With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.
You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.
Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.
It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.
Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there.
I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be swept aside.
Watch me closely - only one can spoil it.
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.
Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.
The piano is an orchestra with 88. . . . . . things, you know
The next movement is still in the factory.
In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it
An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.