The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming. — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. — George Szell Copy Share Image
“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the… — Isaac Stern Copy Share Image
The brain is a little saline pool that acts as a conductor, and it runs on electricity. — Judith Hooper Copy Share Image
In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor. — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Today we can establish Sharia law because our nation will acquire well-being only with Islam and Sharia. The Muslim Brothers and the… — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York.… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this;… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I had a tough childhood, yes. I was born in rural Bangladesh to parents who had had no education beyond high school.… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I knew that I'd lived in New York too long when, a few years ago, I was on a subway going downtown,… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering… — Heinrich Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this… — James Levine Copy Share Image
You stand exactly in the middle, poised between heaven and earth, a human conductor for the energy that seeks to flow between… — Margot Anand Copy Share Image
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
And there's a metal train that's a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her, How long… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I prefer it when the conductor follows me. It is more difficult to work with a conductor who does not listen -… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
The most important thing for the conductor is that he or she listens. Her listening will make things sound a certain way.… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful,… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments… — Bill Rancic Copy Share Image
[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect,… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“In this symphony that is my life, God is not content to be a member of the audience or stage crew. He… — Brad Wilcox Copy Share Image
[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
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