I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.

I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

— Eugene Ormandy

I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.

— Joe Hisaishi

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

— Edwin Land

I am equally comfortable conducting an orchestra or talking to a group of academics as I am on stage playing with a rock band.…

— Bear McCreary

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a…

— Nadia Boulanger

I always felt that I would become somebody outstanding, whether it was in singing, instrumental playing, orchestra conducting, or anything involving feeling.

— Rudy Vallee

I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone…

— Bobby McFerrin

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to…

— Harry Mathews

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare…

— David Amram

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger…

— Roland Joffe

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more…

— Warren G. Bennis

The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting…

— Henry Mintzberg

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

— Eugene Ormandy

I cannot give it to you, so try to watch me.

— Eugene Ormandy

Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa.

— Eugene Ormandy