In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted…

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

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are…

— Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

— Zubin Mehta

I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes…

— Osamu Dazai

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just…

— Itzhak Perlman

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion,…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I knew that I'd lived in New York too long when, a few years ago, I was on a subway going downtown, and it…

— Lewis Black

Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal with…

— Kenneth Keniston

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

— Richard Armitage

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

— John Dryden

The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor…

— Giuseppe Verdi

I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra…

— Charles Hazlewood

“When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the…

— Anonymous

On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it…

— Eberhard Weber

And there's a metal train that's a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her, How long til it…

— Bo Burnham