Conductor Quotes · Page 2

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

— Nina Arianda

The conductor wielded the orchestra like a blunt instrument.

— John Lydon

“En voiture, Monsieur,’ said the Wagon Lit conductor.”

— Agatha Christie

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

— James Levine

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

— Harriet Tubman

Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.

— John Barbirolli

Did you play? It sounded very good.

— Eugene Ormandy

You are the conductor of your own success train.

— William Cranch Bond

When the oldest surviving record company goes all in on a conductor, everyone notices.

— Andris Nelsons

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

— Bernard Arnault

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

— Nicholas Meyer

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the…

— Igor Stravinsky

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he…

— Isaac Stern

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

— Ethel Barrymore

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

— Richard Armitage

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the…

— Anonymous

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

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and…

— Sara Zarr

In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination…

— Robert Heller

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

You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help…

— Kurt Masur

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you…

— Gunther Schuller

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

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as…

— Franz Liszt

The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were)…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges…

— Laura Esquivel

I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor…

— Daniel Barenboim

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

I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick.…

— Gerard Way

At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all…

— Janet Fitch

I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social…

— Ted Nelson

The conductor of an orchestra doesnt make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

— Suman Rai

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

— Anton Seidl

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

— Nadia Boulanger

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

— Zubin Mehta

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music…

— Edward Gardner

I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

— Little Richard

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

— Anthony Hopkins

The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

— Benjamin Zander