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 is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the services of first-class conductors. They are sick and tired of dealing with singers, as… — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume... to do something… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“The conductor of the orchestra doesn’t make a sound. His power comes from awakening possibility in others. —Benjamin Zander, conductor and coauthor… — Malcolm Harkins Copy Share Image
I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And,… — Julia Roberts 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
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
By the end of Pop's life I wanted to give something back and when I came on board as his musical director… — Frank Sinatra Jr 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
The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days… — Leonard Slatkin 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 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
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
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
Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Bernstein was everywhere - Vienna, London - and everyone admired him. Of course he loved Boston, and he did so many great… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra… — Oscar Levant 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
It is when music is added that a film can come to life for a director. A live orchestra, playing the score… — Robert Paul Wolff Copy Share Image
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to… — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
When I got out of college I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if… — J.K. Simmons 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
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces,… — Alan J. Pakula 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
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
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
To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a… — John Philip Sousa 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
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
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