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
In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
The brain is a little saline pool that acts as a conductor, and it runs on electricity. — Judith Hooper Copy Share Image
Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the… — Isaac Stern Copy Share Image
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less. — Neville Marriner Copy Share Image
“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. — George Szell 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
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 can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that,… — Joshua Bell 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
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
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical… — Marvin Hamlisch 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
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
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s simply because it’s not your train. Don’t try to flag down the conductor… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Years ago, I heard an interview with violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The interviewer said, "Do you still practice?" And he said, "I practice… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
If you're not filled back up quickly, you might collapse like a birthday balloon". I guess that's why acting is so addictive.… — Matthew Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Never wanted to do anything else than acting ever in my life. But I'm 20, and there's so many possibilities. It would… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
I'm like a conductor. I come up with ideas, and I get all these people to make great music together. I have… — John Rocha Copy Share Image
“Many say, "We march to the beat of our drum," yet no one bothered to ask who's the conductor!” — Erick "The Black Sheep" G Copy Share Image
There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off. — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
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
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
Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
There's only one woman I know of who could never be a symphony conductor, and that's the Venus de Milo. — Margaret Hillis Copy Share Image
