Conductor Quote by Anna Netrebko

For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together.

— Hilary Hahn

A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that, things have…

— Joshua Bell

The most important thing for the conductor is that he or she listens. Her listening will make things sound a certain way. If the…

— Laurence Equilbey

Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra…

— Andrea Bocelli

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation…

— Eberhard Weber

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned,…

— Peter Brook

The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around.

— Simon Rattle

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

A conductor should guide rather than command.

— Riccardo Muti

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the…

— Edward Gardner

I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have…

— Joshua Bell

The conductor must make it possible to eliminate himself in the music. If the orchestra feels him doing that, then everything will go well.

— Giuseppe Sinopoli