“(From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser) At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
Normally classical music is set up so you have professionals on a stage and a bunch of audience - it's us versus… — David Lang Copy Share Image
Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
By the end of Pop's life I wanted to give something back and when I came on board as his musical director… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
What appeals to me about an American music directorship is the involvement of the conductor with the orchestra and the community. I… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
I'm like a conductor. I come up with ideas, and I get all these people to make great music together. I have… — John Rocha Copy Share Image
Never wanted to do anything else than acting ever in my life. But I'm 20, and there's so many possibilities. It would… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
“Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
If you're not filled back up quickly, you might collapse like a birthday balloon". I guess that's why acting is so addictive.… — Matthew Jacobs Copy Share Image
Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that,… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
“He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air. Serried. Then just… — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes,… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration,… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
It is when music is added that a film can come to life for a director. A live orchestra, playing the score… — Robert Paul Wolff Copy Share Image
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to… — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
When I got out of college I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if… — J.K. Simmons Copy Share Image
The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces,… — Alan J. Pakula Copy Share Image
The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it… — Neeme Jarvi Copy Share Image
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