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
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
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the… — Igor Stravinsky 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
Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor;… — Robert Greenberg Copy Share Image
It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this… — James Levine 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
I prefer it when the conductor follows me. It is more difficult to work with a conductor who does not listen -… — Anna Netrebko 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
If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but… — DJ Spooky 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
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
I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra… — Leon Theremin Copy Share Image
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this;… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
When I'm having a rehearsal and there are new guys who come in to try out for the job, I always let… — Ray Charles 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
You stand exactly in the middle, poised between heaven and earth, a human conductor for the energy that seeks to flow between… — Margot Anand 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
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful,… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
Every purely natural object is a conductor of divinity, and we have but to expose ourselves in a clean condition to any… — John Muir Copy Share Image
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