Conductor Quotes · Page 2

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the…

— Igor Stravinsky

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

— Ethel Barrymore

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

— Richard Armitage

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

— Giuseppe Verdi

[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you?

— Mary McLeod Bethune

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.

— Itzhak Perlman

Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops...

— Jon Champion

Show me an orchestra that likes its conductor and I'll show you a lousy conductor.

— Goddard Lieberson

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or…

— Sharon Salzberg

I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And,…

— Julia Roberts

A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell…

— Isaac Stern

Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee…

— Samuel Beckett

Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of course, all people have their own reasons for believing what they do about gender. In my case, in over two decades…

— Michael Hersch

Today we can establish Sharia law because our nation will acquire well-being only with Islam and Sharia. The Muslim Brothers and the…

— Mohammed Morsi

Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges…

— Laura Esquivel

The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were)…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all…

— Janet Fitch

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

— Henry Mintzberg

Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor;…

— Robert Greenberg

Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare. A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A…

— Mark Twain

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.”

— Lee J. Colan

There's only one woman I know of who could never be a symphony conductor, and that's the Venus de Milo.

— Margaret Hillis

Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success.

— Kurt Masur

There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute

— Anita Diament

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

— Leonard Bernstein

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like…

— Franz Liszt

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

— Pierre Boulez

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players..

— Anonymous

This year - a factory of semiconductors. Next year - a factory of whole conductors!

— Todor Zhivkov

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

— Kurt Masur

For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together.

— Hilary Hahn

The conductor must make it possible to eliminate himself in the music. If the orchestra feels him doing that, then everything will…

— Giuseppe Sinopoli

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

— Arturo Toscanini

Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

You're about to be the conductor on the most brilliant, runaway train in showbiz. Good luck you'll love it.

— Dermot O'Leary

I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing…

— Lisa Loeb