About Quote by Andris Nelsons

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

— Anonymous

Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow…

— Frank Zappa

Through conducting, you express through your arms, through your face and even the body, what you want to tell, so the musicians of the…

— Andris Nelsons

Conducting is a natural way to participate in one's own music. Almost every 19th-century composer Mendelssohn, Mahler was conducting or playing his own music.…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.

— Daniel Barenboim

Conducting is intensely social. You work with a hundred people every day. You collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts, you try to give…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I'm trying to be expressive on my instrument and conduct as I'm improvising. So I'm conducting with the melodies and the rhythms that I…

— Joe Lovano

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

— Joshua Bell

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

— Isaac Stern

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more…

— Carter Burwell

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

— Herbert von Karajan