My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I started, I'd never had a conducting lesson in my life; I could just do it. — Richard Bonynge Copy Share Image
Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I love orchestrating music and conducting and being on Broadway. — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
“they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
It is true [the risk for travel is greater] for we now operate in a global market. Business travelers are conducting business… — Mark Hall Copy Share Image
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language… — Steve Cosson Copy Share Image
It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
While it is important to be aware of and sensitive to cultural differences when conducting business internationally, the principles of transparency, trust,… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
Rules of Order state that ... No minority has a right to block a majority from conducting the legal business of the… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill. — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between… — Harriet Quimby Copy Share Image
Through conducting, you express through your arms, through your face and even the body, what you want to tell, so the musicians… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
My purpose in life, my goal for the NBA is to preach God's word - not just try to beat everybody over… — Dwight Howard Copy Share Image
An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think… — Elisabeth Murdoch Copy Share Image
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's… — Bob Parsons Copy Share Image
“The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a seven-hundred-thousand-dollar study to see if Alaskan trees are polluting Oregon forests. You can tell Republicans… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image