“We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in ...” — David Newman Quote

We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.

To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.

I actually played violin on 'E.T.' I used to be a violinist.

Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.

I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.

If you listen - and I don't, usually - to my first two records, I sound like a baby surrounded by a beautiful orchestra. I sound so tiny and small.

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.

I think the preservation of orchestras and what they do is worth expending all the ways there are to reach out to people who might not otherwise go.

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.