Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much. — John Barbirolli Copy Share Image
As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music… — Edward Gardner Copy Share Image
And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good. — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
When the oldest surviving record company goes all in on a conductor, everyone notices. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he… — Isaac Stern Copy Share Image
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. — Ethel Barrymore Copy Share Image
I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And,… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Bernstein was everywhere - Vienna, London - and everyone admired him. Of course he loved Boston, and he did so many great… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra… — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature.… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“pulled out my Valery Gergiev trump card and said I would have to call him about getting another hotel. There are many… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Before Liszt, a conductor was someone who just facilitated the performance, who would keep people together or beat the time, indicate the… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were)… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes. — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you? — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
Show me an orchestra that likes its conductor and I'll show you a lousy conductor. — Goddard Lieberson Copy Share Image
“You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.” — Lee J. Colan Copy Share Image
I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops... — Jon Champion Copy Share Image
![“I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And, and...and sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick, so why don't you sit. 'Cause I may never be here again.'” quote by Julia Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/55b/julia-roberts-2214_academy-awards_i-uh-i-have-a-television-so-i-m-going-to_571020.jpg)
![“[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And…” quote by Laura Esquivel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6b4/laura-esquivel-4121_capacity_words-cling-to-the-very-core-of-our-memo_728786.jpg)
![“[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you?” quote by Mary McLeod Bethune](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bde/mary-mcleod-bethune-15723_auntie_to-the-patronizing-train-conductor-who-h_476407.jpg)
