Best Quote by Andris Nelsons

Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to…

— Lee Konitz

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing…

— Jason Robert Brown

I always loved the motion picture scores and the great film composers like Elmer Bernstein.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I played with the best conductors of the world.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are…

— Zubin Mehta

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

— Harriet Tubman

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

— Bernard Arnault

I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it becomes political.…

— Neeme Jarvi

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

— Zubin Mehta

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

I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor.

— Simon Rattle

I think my first impression (of Bix Beiderbecke) was the lasting one. I remember very clearly thinking, 'Where, what planet, did this guy come…

— Benny Goodman