To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer,… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned… — Chet Huntley Copy Share Image
The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
This year - a factory of semiconductors. Next year - a factory of whole conductors! — Todor Zhivkov Copy Share Image
Never wanted to do anything else than acting ever in my life. But I'm 20, and there's so many possibilities. It would… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
What appeals to me about an American music directorship is the involvement of the conductor with the orchestra and the community. I… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful. — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket. 'How old's your kid?' the… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them. — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image