I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like… — Franz Liszt 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
And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he… — Isaac Stern Copy Share Image
The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it… — Neeme Jarvi 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
Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to… — Leonard Slatkin 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
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Normally classical music is set up so you have professionals on a stage and a bunch of audience - it's us versus… — David Lang Copy Share Image
The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom… — Anton Seidl 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
When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Aromatherapy without massage is like an orchestra without a conductor — Robert Tisserand Copy Share Image
The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to… — Damien Chazelle 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
Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals. — Esa-Pekka Salonen 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
The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Of course, all people have their own reasons for believing what they do about gender. In my case, in over two decades… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music… — Edward Gardner 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
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