Composer Quote by Anton Seidl Download Open image “Composers are not all good conductors.” — Anton Seidl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer Conductor
I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs. — Vicente Fernandez Copy Share Image
A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America. — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself. — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good. — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music. — Pepe Romero Copy Share Image
There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers and do… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books. — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift. — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure. — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's… — Michael Brecker Copy Share Image
“- Mom, can I tell them there that I'm Romanian? - Sure, why not tell them? - I was thinking that they wouldn't think...… — George Enescu Copy Share Image
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to… — Ernest Gold Copy Share Image
I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer. — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should do it.… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
