The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less. — Neville Marriner 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
The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
And there's a metal train that's a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her, How long… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor… — Joshua Bell 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
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
I knew that I'd lived in New York too long when, a few years ago, I was on a subway going downtown,… — Lewis Black 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
I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
I am the pianist of the duo, although Aleksey does pretty good... you know we've written more and more stuff where he… — Richard Hyung-ki Joo Copy Share Image
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“understand that to be truly successful I need to be like a conductor of people, many of whom (if not all) can… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“In this symphony that is my life, God is not content to be a member of the audience or stage crew. He… — Brad Wilcox 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
[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect,… — Charles Hazlewood 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
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 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
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
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
I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where… — Phillip C. Schlechty Copy Share Image
Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is… — Goran Ivanisevic Copy Share Image
I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham… — Charles Hazlewood 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
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
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
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra… — Eberhard Weber 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
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
And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
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