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
Young conductors who are confident enough, they very often have success. — Kurt Masur 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
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
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
“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
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
There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute — Anita Diament 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
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
I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But… — Simon McBurney 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
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
It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature.… — Tori Amos 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
A great conductor is an alchemical force: someone who can absorb the historical weight of a famous melody, the expectations of an… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most… — Bert Williams Copy Share Image
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein Copy Share Image
What appeals to me about an American music directorship is the involvement of the conductor with the orchestra and the community. I… — Jeffrey Tate 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
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
“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
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
Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell… — Isaac Stern 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
The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And… — Andrea Bocelli 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
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
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
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
There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who… — Quincy Jones 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
Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the… — Elvin Jones 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
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
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