Conducting Quotes

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

— Edwin Land

Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.

— Anonymous

I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.

— Leonard Bernstein

I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

— Richard Strauss

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

— Eugene Ormandy

The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to…

— Fritz Reiner

Corporate identity specialists spend their time rechristening other companies, conducting a legal search and a linguistic search to insure that the name…

— Lisa Belkin

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

— David Hare

Arabs and their allies are conducting a total war against Israel. A total war means a war of lies. The PA [Palestinian…

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

— Julie Burchill

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

— Barbara Tuchman

The Kosovo campaign was a just and necessary war. And I believe that Blair - of whom I have many criticisms -…

— Margaret Thatcher

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician,…

— Susanna Clarke

The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty…

— Paul Feyerabend

I began conducting when I was in school, around age 12, because I was writing little theater pieces and wanted to perform…

— George Benjamin

Trying to stop suiciders -- which we're doing a pretty good job of on occasion -- is difficult to do. And what…

— George W. Bush

People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can't unless…

— Jeffrey Tate

He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity, honors, wealth and station--these are so far valuable as…

— John Jortin

People have a right to protest peacefully, but there's absolutely no excuse for anyone to be conducting a campaign of intimidation that…

— Tim Soutphommasane

When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of…

— Michael Ian Black

No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions…

— Winston Churchill

That Iran is willing to threaten Israel is wrong[. . . .] We pose no threat and if we are conducting nuclear…

— Ali Larijani

People, materials, facilities, money, and time are the resources available to us for conducting our business. By applying our skills, we turn…

— David Packard

Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex?" He smiled, but not…

— Karen Marie Moning

The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising…

— James Madison

There is also the fact that NORAD-Northeast was conducting war game exercises that morning, a fact that has been very little talked…

— Jim Marrs

I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an…

— George Ade

It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to…

— Joseph Priestley

Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever!

— Kirsten Dunst

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

— Gustav Mahler

don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.

— Richard Strauss

The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.

— David Lloyd

Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.

— Barbara Olson

My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'

— Walker Hayes

In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it…

— Michael Tilson Thomas