Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much. — John Barbirolli Copy Share Image
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York.… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering… — Heinrich Neuhaus Copy Share Image
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. — Ethel Barrymore Copy Share Image
There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures. — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
The most important thing for the conductor is that he or she listens. Her listening will make things sound a certain way.… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most… — Bert Williams Copy Share Image
There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops... — Jon Champion Copy Share Image
A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an… — Ruggiero Ricci Copy Share Image
I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image