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
What is a career, actually? Nobody can destroy my career. Only I can destroy my career, if I am a bad conductor.… — Neeme Jarvi Copy Share Image
There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
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 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
The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were)… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
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 Copy Share Image
At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all… — Janet Fitch 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
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift. — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor. — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
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 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
[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
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
You're about to be the conductor on the most brilliant, runaway train in showbiz. Good luck you'll love it. — Dermot O'Leary Copy Share Image
The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming. — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces,… — Alan J. Pakula 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
