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
I study the Bible constantly. I teach the Bible. You know, I'm a Bible conductor, and I have a lot of people… — George Benson 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
“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
Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in… — Oliver Heaviside 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
I have had much pleasure in working with Orphei Drängar during my time as chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and… — Neeme Jarvi 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
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
My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“There was that sound again--snap, then a footfall. She tried to whirl around as a dark form--Dear God--sprang with a splash from… — Kaye George 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
Playing music well is difficult, yet the world has an abundance of fine performers. Explaining a little about music is easier, yet… — Justin Davidson 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
I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
Hover boards, unfortunately, currently violate the laws of physics. Supermagnets exist, but they have to be cooled to near absolute zero, and… — Michio Kaku 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 certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support… — Paul Klee 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
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a… — John Philip Sousa 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
Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to… — Colum McCann 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
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes,… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
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