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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

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

There's so many different ways to play Mozart.

— Hilary Hahn

The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and…

— Leonard Slatkin

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

— Kurt Masur

“The novelist is like the conductor of an orchestra, his back to the audience, his face invisible, summoning the experience of music for the…

— Sol Stein

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and…

— John Philip Sousa

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

— Anthony Hopkins

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 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

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

The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden…

— Charles Munch